Re: [Qemu-devel] checkpatch.pl question

[Markus Armbruster]

Alexey Kardashevskiy <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi!
>
> checkpatch.pl often complains on things like this:
>
> ===
> ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
> #57: FILE: hw/misc/vfio.c:4323:
> +int vfio_container_ioctl(AddressSpace *as, int32_t groupid,
>                                        ^
>
> total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 46 lines checked
> ===
>
> Since perl is a write-only language, I cannot understand why :) Any clue?

It misinterprets the '*' as infix operator, because it doesn't recognize
'AddressSpace *as' is a declaration.  Sorry, this isn't much of a clue,
but you didn't provide much of a reproducer.