Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation

[Ingo Molnar]

* Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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;
> 
> This is for:
> 
> struct tracer_stat_session {
>         struct list_head        session_list;
>         struct tracer_stat      *ts;
>         struct list_head        stat_list;
>         struct mutex            stat_mutex;
>         struct dentry           *file;
> };
> 
> Which looks a hell of a lot better than:
> 
> struct tracer_stat_session {
>         struct list_head session_list;
>         struct tracer_stat *ts;
>         struct list_head stat_list;
>         struct mutex stat_mutex;
>         struct dentry *file;
> };
> 
> We probably do not want to warn on such things.

yeah, those warnings look bogus.

	Ingo
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