[PATCH] checkpatch: Improve 'bare use of' signed/unsigned types warning

From: Joe Perches
Date: Tue Jul 26 2016 - 06:40:32 EST


Fix false positive warning of identifiers ending in signed with an =
assignment of WARNING: Prefer 'signed int' to bare use of 'signed'.

Reported-by: Alan Douglas <alanjhd@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 77915e0..1d5b09d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3347,7 +3347,7 @@ sub process {
next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/);

# check for declarations of signed or unsigned without int
- while ($line =~ m{($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
+ while ($line =~ m{\b($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
my $type = $1;
my $var = $2;
$var = "" if (!defined $var);
--
2.8.0.rc4.16.g56331f8