In some occasions, a patch [1] can start with a hunk containing a simple type cast. At the time annotate_values() is run, the type is unknown and the cast type is misinterpreted as a identifier, resulting in an error if it is followed with a negative value:
ERROR: spaces required around that '-' (ctx:WxV) It seems complex to catch all possible types in a cast expression. So, as a fallback solution, let's add some common qemu types to the typeList array. [1] http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2016-03/msg06741.html Signed-off-by: Cédric Le Goater <c...@fr.ibm.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) Index: qemu-dgibson-for-2.6.git/scripts/checkpatch.pl =================================================================== --- qemu-dgibson-for-2.6.git.orig/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ qemu-dgibson-for-2.6.git/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -212,6 +212,7 @@ our @typeList = ( qr{${Ident}_t}, qr{${Ident}_handler}, qr{${Ident}_handler_fn}, + qr{target_(?:u)?long}, ); # This can be modified by sub possible. Since it can be empty, be careful