Re: [PATCH 9/36] drivers edac new intel 5000X mc driver

[Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:38:40 -0700 Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sun, 3 Jun 2007 07:40:26 -0700 (PDT)
> Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > +static void i5000_process_nonfatal_error_info(struct mem_ctl_info
> > *mci,
> > +					      struct i5000_error_info * info,
> 
> ditto (please check whole patch)
> 
> (I thought checkpatch.pl would catch this, but it doesn't?)

Here's a small patch against v.3 that will catch this.

---
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>

Catch "struct * blah" by allowing spaces preceding the '*'.
Bah.  Maybe the error string needs a small change also.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- scripts.orig/checkpatch-v3.pl
+++ scripts/checkpatch-v3.pl
@@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # * goes on variable not on type
-		if ($line=~/[A-Za-z\d_]+\* [A-Za-z\d_]+/) {
+		if ($line=~/[\sA-Za-z\d_]+\* [A-Za-z\d_]+/) {
 			print "\"foo* bar\" should be \"foo *bar\"\n";
 			print "$herecurr";
 			$clean = 0;