When using a "FILE *" type, checkpatch considers this an error: ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxV) #32: FILE: f.c:8: +static void a(FILE *const b) ^

Fix this by explicitly defining "FILE" as a common type. This is useful for user space patches.

With this patch, we now get: <E> <E> <_>WS( ) <E> <E> <_>IDENT(static) <E> <V> <_>WS( ) <E> <V> <_>DECLARE(void ) <E> <T> <_>FUNC(a) <E> <V> <V>PAREN('(') <EV> <N> <_>DECLARE(FILE *const ) <EV> <T> <_>IDENT(b) <EV> <V> <_>PAREN(')') -> V <E> <V> <_>WS( ) 32 > . static void a(FILE *const b) 32 > EEVVVVVVVTTTTTVNTTTTTTTTTTTTVVV 32 > ______________________________

Cc: Andy Whitcroft apw@canonical.com Cc: Dwaipayan Ray dwaipayanray1@gmail.com Cc: Joe Perches joe@perches.com Cc: Lukas Bulwahn lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Mickaël Salaün mic@digikod.net Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220902111923.1488671-1-mic@digikod.net ---

Changes since v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220901145948.1456353-1-mic@digikod.net * Remove the FIXTURE_{DATA,VARIANT}() comments. * Improve commit description. --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 79e759aac543..e2175102a354 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -576,10 +576,14 @@ our $typeKernelTypedefs = qr{(?x: (?:__)?(?:u|s|be|le)(?:8|16|32|64)| atomic_t )}; +our $typeStdioTypedefs = qr{(?x: + FILE +)}; our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x: $typeC99Typedefs\b| $typeOtherOSTypedefs\b| - $typeKernelTypedefs\b + $typeKernelTypedefs\b| + $typeStdioTypedefs\b )};

our $zero_initializer = qr{(?:(?:0[xX])?0+$Int_type?|NULL|false)\b};

base-commit: b90cb1053190353cc30f0fef0ef1f378ccc063c5