Re: checkpatch.pl false positive

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2014-07-22 at 17:30 +0000, Hartley Sweeten wrote:
> Joe,
> 
> I think this is a false positive, at least the check message appears
> incorrect:
> 
> CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
> #66: FILE: arch/arm/mach-ep93xx/include/mach/platform.h:66:
> +static inline int crunch_init(void) { return 0; }

Yeah, it's a false positive introduced by -next
commit 89da401f6cff ("checkpatch: improve "no space after cast" test")

Try this?
---
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2258497..644c2d5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2418,7 +2418,7 @@ sub process {
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic)/) {
+		if ($line =~ /^\+.*\(\s*$Type\s*\)[ \t]+(?!$Assignment|$Arithmetic|{)/) {
 			if (CHK("SPACING",
 				"No space is necessary after a cast\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {


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