Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: Added blank line after declarations

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2023-10-31 at 13:27 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 10:06:10AM +0000, Rohit Chavan wrote:
> > Fixes below warning reported by checkpatch.
> > WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Rohit Chavan <roheetchavan@xxxxxxxxx>
> 
> This is a checkpatch false positive.  (It's not "after declarations").
> Just ignore it.
> 

checkpatch could accept function pointer and function pointer arrays
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 25fdb7fda1128..de1f4962f55d6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1073,6 +1073,7 @@ our $Typecast	= qr{\s*(\(\s*$NonptrType\s*\)){0,1}\s*};
 # Any use must be runtime checked with $^V
 
 our $balanced_parens = qr/(\((?:[^\(\)]++|(?-1))*\))/;
+our $balanced_brackets = qr/(\[(?:[^\[\]]++|(?-1))*\])/;
 our $LvalOrFunc	= qr{((?:[\&\*]\s*)?$Lval)\s*($balanced_parens{0,1})\s*};
 our $FuncArg = qr{$Typecast{0,1}($LvalOrFunc|$Constant|$String)};
 
@@ -4107,7 +4108,7 @@ sub process {
 			# looks like a declaration
 			    !($sl =~ /^\+\s+$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[=,;:\[]/ ||
 			# function pointer declarations
-			      $sl =~ /^\+\s+$Declare\s*\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\)\s*[=,;:\[\(]/ ||
+			      $sl =~ /^\+\s+$Declare\s*\(\s*\*\s*$Ident(?:\s*$balanced_brackets)*\s*\)\s*[=,;:\[\(]/ ||
 			# foo bar; where foo is some local typedef or #define
 			      $sl =~ /^\+\s+$Ident(?:\s+|\s*\*\s*)$Ident\s*[=,;\[]/ ||
 			# known declaration macros