[ovs-dev] [PATCH] checkpatch: Fix mis-flagging of division operators as lacking whitespace.

Ben Pfaff blp at ovn.org
Tue Apr 3 18:23:26 UTC 2018


The regular expression here would flag any slash that wasn't adjacent to
an asterisk as missing whitespace.  This fixes the problem.

Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at ovn.org>
---
 utilities/checkpatch.py | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/utilities/checkpatch.py b/utilities/checkpatch.py
index 9a83afbdeeaa..0f389052c1f9 100755
--- a/utilities/checkpatch.py
+++ b/utilities/checkpatch.py
@@ -472,7 +472,7 @@ infix_operators = \
             '&=', '^=', '|=', '<<=', '>>=']] \
     + ['[^<" ]<[^=" ]', '[^->" ]>[^=" ]', '[^ !()/"]\*[^/]', '[^ !&()"]&',
        '[^" +(]\+[^"+;]', '[^" -(]-[^"->;]', '[^" <>=!^|+\-*/%&]=[^"=]',
-       '[^*]/[^*]']
+       '[^* ]/[^* ]']
 checks += [
     {'regex': '(\.c|\.h)(\.in)?$', 'match_name': None,
      'prereq': lambda x: not is_comment_line(x),
-- 
2.16.1



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