checkpatch: type/cast spacing should not check prefix spacing

We should not be complaining about the prefix spacing for types and casts.
 We are triggering here because the check for spacing between '*'s is
overly loose.  Tighten this up.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index eefef65fa584627c535ffc593bd9bb9d684193f1..1d7924ad3a34898d49a0087c61cc0bd8672fca7c 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1665,7 +1665,7 @@ sub process {
                        # Should not end with a space.
                        $to =~ s/\s+$//;
                        # '*'s should not have spaces between.
-                       while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+                       while ($to =~ s/\*\s+\*/\*\*/) {
                        }
 
                        #print "from<$from> to<$to>\n";
@@ -1680,7 +1680,7 @@ sub process {
                        # Should not end with a space.
                        $to =~ s/\s+$//;
                        # '*'s should not have spaces between.
-                       while ($to =~ s/(.)\s\*/$1\*/) {
+                       while ($to =~ s/\*\s+\*/\*\*/) {
                        }
                        # Modifiers should have spaces.
                        $to =~ s/(\b$Modifier$)/$1 /;