Re: [PATCH] update checkpatch.pl to version 0.08

From: Jan Engelhardt
Date: Tue Jul 24 2007 - 12:53:47 EST



On Jul 23 2007 16:36, Kok, Auke wrote:
>
> this somehow seems to match something completely non-related (a function
> pointer declaration case):
>
> ERROR: no space between function name and open parenthesis '('
> #7278: FILE: drivers/net/e1000e/hw.h:434:
> + bool (*check_mng_mode)(struct e1000_hw *);
>
> even if I put a space between ")(", it still complains.

[assumed] majority of kernel code uses ")(" instead of ")\s+(",
so the warning seems bogus. And it even gets nitpicky.



Jan
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