checkpatch: possible modifiers are not being correctly matched

Although we are finding the added modifier in the declaration below
we are not correctly matching it as a type.  Fix the declaration.

    static void __ref *vmem_alloc_pages(unsigned int order)
    {
    }

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft 2008-07-23 21:29:07 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 7429c6903e
commit d2172eb5bd

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@ -168,12 +168,11 @@ our @modifierList = (
);
sub build_types {
my $mods = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
my $all = "(?: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)";
my $mods = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @modifierList) . "\n)";
my $all = "(?x: \n" . join("|\n ", @typeList) . "\n)";
$Modifier = qr{(?:$Attribute|$Sparse|$mods)};
$NonptrType = qr{
(?:const\s+)?
(?:$mods\s+)?
(?:$Modifier\s+|const\s+)*
(?:
(?:typeof|__typeof__)\s*\(\s*\**\s*$Ident\s*\)|
(?:${all}\b)