On Fri, 1 Apr 2016 11:40:06 +0200 Cédric Le Goater <c...@fr.ibm.com> wrote:
> 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> > --- Indeed, with this patch, the checkpatch script stops complaining when it sees: + if (prefix == (target_ulong) -1ULL) { And I tend to agree with Cedric... unless Paolo has a bright idea of course. :) Acked-by: Greg Kurz <gk...@linux.vnet.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
