checkpatch: allow space between colon and bracket
Allow a space between a colon and subsequent opening bracket. This
sequence may occur in inline assembler statements like
asm(
"ldr %[out], [%[in]]\n\t"
: [out] "=r" (ret)
: [in] "r" (addr)
);
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180403191655.23700-1-xypron.glpk@gmx.de
Signed-off-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 5deee8b..eb534d4 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4089,7 +4089,7 @@
my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) &&
- $prefix !~ /[{,]\s+$/) {
+ $prefix !~ /[{,:]\s+$/) {
if (ERROR("BRACKET_SPACE",
"space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {