Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

Andy Whitcroft
2007-07-24T17:07:05Z

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On Jul 23 2007 16:36, Kok, Auke wrote:
>> this somehow seems to match something completely non-related (a function
>> pointer declaration case):
>>
>> ERROR: no space between function name and open parenthesis '('
>> #7278: FILE: drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h:434:
>> + bool (*check_mng_mode)(struct e1000_hw *);
>>
>> even if I put a space between ")(", it still complains.
>
> [assumed] majority of kernel code uses ")(" instead of ")\s+(",
> so the warning seems bogus. And it even gets nitpicky.

Yep, thats just a false positive. Will sort it out.

-apw