checkpatch: types may sit on a line on their own
When the following form is used we have a type which fully fills a line.
This means that a type may end at the end of line as well as at the
following identifier.
int **
foo;
Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.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 0a87c74..41f59b1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@
$av_preprocessor = 0;
}
- } elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\()/) {
+ } elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\(|\s*$)/) {
print "DECLARE($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
$type = 'T';