Re: error from checkpatch.pl version 0.10

On Sep 20 2007 16:53, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
>> >   ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV)
>> >   #2334: FILE: security/tomoyo/common.c:2306:
>> >   +static unsigned int tmy_poll(struct file *file, poll_table *wait)
>> >                                                               ^
>> 
>> Looks like a checkpatch.pl bug to me -- that was nothing to warn about.
>
>Hmm yeah this is a false positive, its hard to detect correctly.  Some
>fool decided to use * as both a unary and binary operator and made life
>very hard indeed.

The C parser has no problem with it :p
It is simple: there cannot be a binary * operator in the argument list.
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