From: Joe Perches on
On Wed, 2010-08-11 at 12:35 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> I just got this from a patch I merged..
>
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #121: FILE: arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/pcc-cpufreq.c:113:
> +static struct pcc_cpu __percpu *pcc_cpu_info;
> ^
> which doesn't seem right.

Perhaps these need to be added to checkpatch.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 ++++++++++++++
1 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2039acd..51ba019 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -150,6 +150,20 @@ our $Sparse = qr{
# We need \b after 'init' otherwise 'initconst' will cause a false positive in a check
our $Attribute = qr{
const|
+ __percpu|
+ __nocast|
+ __safe|
+ __bitwise__|
+ __packed__|
+ __packed2__|
+ __naked|
+ __maybe_unused|
+ __always_unused|
+ __noreturn|
+ __used|
+ __cold|
+ __noclone|
+ __deprecated|
__read_mostly|
__kprobes|
__(?:mem|cpu|dev|)(?:initdata|initconst|init\b)|




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