Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: support function pointers for unnamed function definition arguments

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 11:01 +0800, Miles Chen wrote:
> Current unnamed function definition argument does not include function
> pointer cases and it reports warnings like:
> 
> WARNING: function definition argument 'void' should also have an identifier name

> 
> Support function pointers for unnamed function arguments.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index dd2c262..dc6da15 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ sub process {
>  
>  # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
>  		if (defined $stat &&
> -		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
> +		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*\(?\s*\*?\s*$Ident\s*\)\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&

Better would be to specifically support function pointers like:
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05dd72693621..7289c1eb0b19 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
 		if (defined $stat &&
-		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
+		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
 		    $1 ne "void") {
 			my $args = trim($1);
 			while ($args =~ m/\s*($Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident?\s*\)\s*$balanced_parens)?)/g) {