From f9a0b3d17a01fe1ba24ce1e9c18666a52052e011 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 13:51:05 -0800
Subject: 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 <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

(limited to 'scripts')

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index eefef65fa584..1d7924ad3a34 100755
--- 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 /;
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