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Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2009 18:51:14 +0000
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation
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On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:57:23PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm now seeing the following warnings from checkpatch:
> 
> #325: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:21:
> +	void 			*stat;
> 
> ERROR: "foo 	*bar" should be "foo *bar"
> #334: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:27:
> +	struct tracer_stat 	*ts;
> 
> ERROR: "foo		*bar" should be "foo	*bar"
> #337: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:30:
> +	struct dentry		*file;

Yes those are bogus.  They should be fixed in the latest push to akpm.
You can check that with this version:

  http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-testing

-apw