checkpatch: return is not a function -- parentheses for casts are ok too
Casts require parentheses so it is possible to have something like this:
return (int)(*a);
This miss trips the complexity function. Ensure that the two separate
parenthesised sections are not coelesced.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 66f060e..83ae37b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1670,6 +1670,7 @@
my $value = $2;
# Flatten any parentheses and braces
+ $value =~ s/\)\(/\) \(/g;
while ($value =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/) {
}
