[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 1/2] checkpatch: add hwaddr to @typeList

[Greg Kurz]

The script doesn't know about all possible types and learn them as
it parses the code. If it reaches a line with a type cast but the
type isn't known yet, it is misinterpreted as an identifier.

For example the following line:

    foo = (hwaddr) -1;

results in the following false-positive to be reported:

ERROR: spaces required around that '-' (ctx:VxV)

Let's add this standard QEMU type to the list of pre-known types.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kurz <gr...@kaod.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index fa478074b88d..def5bc1cc0e1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -213,6 +213,7 @@ our @typeList = (
        qr{${Ident}_handler},
        qr{${Ident}_handler_fn},
        qr{target_(?:u)?long},
+       qr{hwaddr},
 );
 
 # This can be modified by sub possible.  Since it can be empty, be careful