Re: False positive in checkpatch

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Sep 24 2013 - 00:21:16 EST


On Mon, 2013-09-23 at 15:59 -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> Hello!
>
> The checkpatch.pl script complains as follows:
>
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB)
> #57: FILE: include/linux/rcupdate.h:564:
> + ACCESS_ONCE(p) = (typeof(*(v)) __force space *)(v); \
>
> Of course, the two uses of '*' are doing different things, so it should
> be OK for the spacing to be different.
>
> Could you please fix this?
>
> Thanx, Paul
>

Hi Paul.

Try this patch: https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/2/428

Andy? Can you verify this suggested patch please?

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