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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2014-04-03 14:49:33 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-04-03 16:21:16 -0700
commitb00e48148e99a20c3d81346390d60c7d23826f61 (patch)
treee81e5d2bbb4578c7d096add661c3b5593e0d0b60 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent91cb5195ff224dd9044cf927f80d9c633cdcffec (diff)
checkpatch: don't warn on bitfield spaces around :
This test prevents code from being aligned around the : for easy visual counting of bitfield lengths. ie: int foo : 1, int bar : 2, int foobar :29; should be acceptable so remove the test. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl7
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d3dcb370fc37..34eb2160489d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3138,10 +3138,13 @@ sub process {
# // is a comment
} elsif ($op eq '//') {
+ # : when part of a bitfield
+ } elsif ($opv eq ':B') {
+ # skip the bitfield test for now
+
# No spaces for:
# ->
- # : when part of a bitfield
- } elsif ($op eq '->' || $opv eq ':B') {
+ } elsif ($op eq '->') {
if ($ctx =~ /Wx.|.xW/) {
if (ERROR("SPACING",
"spaces prohibited around that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) {