From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 21:49:33 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: don't warn on bitfield spaces around :
X-Git-Tag: v3.15-rc1~106^2~72
X-Git-Url: https://asedeno.scripts.mit.edu/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=b00e48148e99a20c3d81346390d60c7d23826f61;p=linux.git

checkpatch: don't warn on bitfield spaces around :

This test prevents code from being aligned around the : for easy visual
counting of bitfield lengths.

ie:
	int foo		: 1,
	int bar		: 2,
	int foobar	:29;

should be acceptable so remove the test.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Suggested-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d3dcb370fc37..34eb2160489d 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3138,10 +3138,13 @@ sub process {
 				# // is a comment
 				} elsif ($op eq '//') {
 
+				#   :   when part of a bitfield
+				} elsif ($opv eq ':B') {
+					# skip the bitfield test for now
+
 				# No spaces for:
 				#   ->
-				#   :   when part of a bitfield
-				} elsif ($op eq '->' || $opv eq ':B') {
+				} elsif ($op eq '->') {
 					if ($ctx =~ /Wx.|.xW/) {
 						if (ERROR("SPACING",
 							  "spaces prohibited around that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) {