On 14/09/2017 11:12, Greg Kurz wrote:
> The script doesn't know about all possible types and learn them as
> it parses the code. If it reaches a line with a type cast but the
> type isn't known yet, it is misinterpreted as an identifier.
>
> For example the following line:
>
> foo = (hwaddr) -1;
>
> results in the following false-positive to be reported:
>
> ERROR: spaces required around that '-' (ctx:VxV)
>
> Let's add this standard QEMU type to the list of pre-known types.
>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org>
> ---
>
> checkpatch doesn't have an official maintainer, Cc'ing David in case he
> agrees to carry this patch through his ppc tree, along with:
>
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2017-09/msg03686.html
>
> scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index fa478074b88d..def5bc1cc0e1 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ our @typeList = (
> qr{${Ident}_handler},
> qr{${Ident}_handler_fn},
> qr{target_(?:u)?long},
> + qr{hwaddr},
> );
>
> # This can be modified by sub possible. Since it can be empty, be careful
>
Queued, thanks.
Paolo