Hexadecimal values are current found in 2 parts. A hex constant like 0x123456abcdef is found as 0 and then x123456abcdef and later coalesced.
Instead, reverse the order of the 2 searches in $Constant to find 0x first, then 0 so that the entire hex constant is found all at once. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index f27b0b5..bd2616d 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -230,7 +230,7 @@ our $Inline = qr{inline|__always_inline|noinline}; our $Member = qr{->$Ident|\.$Ident|\[[^]]*\]}; our $Lval = qr{$Ident(?:$Member)*}; -our $Constant = qr{(?i:(?:[0-9]+|0x[0-9a-f]+)[ul]*)}; +our $Constant = qr{(?i:(?:0x[0-9a-f]+|[0-9]+)[ul]*)}; our $Assignment = qr{(?:\*\=|/=|%=|\+=|-=|<<=|>>=|&=|\^=|\|=|=)}; our $Compare = qr{<=|>=|==|!=|<|>}; our $Operators = qr{ -- 1.7.8.112.g3fd21 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/