[PATCH v2] checkpatch: support function pointers for unnamed function definition arguments

Miles Chen miles.chen at mediatek.com
Thu Sep 14 04:52:05 PDT 2017


Current unnamed function definition argument does not include function
pointer cases and it reports something like:

WARNING: function definition argument 'void' should also have an identifier name
+unsigned int (*dummy)(void);

Support function pointers for unnamed function arguments

Signed-off-by: Miles Chen <miles.chen at mediatek.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index dd2c262..03eb255 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5957,7 +5957,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # check for function declarations that have arguments without identifier names
 		if (defined $stat &&
-		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*$Ident\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
+		    $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident\s*\))\s*\(\s*([^{]+)\s*\)\s*;/s &&
 		    $1 ne "void") {
 			my $args = trim($1);
 			while ($args =~ m/\s*($Type\s*(?:$Ident|\(\s*\*\s*$Ident?\s*\)\s*$balanced_parens)?)/g) {
-- 
1.9.1




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