[Qemu-devel] [PATCH v5 04/46] checkpatch: Recognize IEC binary prefix definitions

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Do not match the IEC binary prefix as camelcase typedefs.

This fixes:

    ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
    #310: FILE: hw/ppc/ppc440_uc.c:564:
    +        size = 8 * MiB * sh;
    total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 433 lines checked

Signed-off-by: Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <address@hidden>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3d8c2cdfc..223681bfd0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -242,6 +242,7 @@ our $UTF8   = qr{
 # There are still some false positives, but this catches most
 # common cases.
 our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x:
+        (?![KMGTPE]iB)                      # IEC binary prefix (do not match)
         [A-Z][A-Z\d_]*[a-z][A-Za-z\d_]*     # camelcase
         | [A-Z][A-Z\d_]*AIOCB               # all uppercase
         | [A-Z][A-Z\d_]*CPU                 # all uppercase
-- 
2.18.0