checkpatch seems to do different things if called with a wildcard than
just the patch file.
This is from patch 7 in a series I'm just about to post. It's
now claiming it wants no space after the *, but whilst developing
it it complained the spaces around the * did not balance (as if
it were multiplication).
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Alex Bligh
$ scripts/checkpatch.pl aio-timer-patches-5/* 2>&1 | fgrep -B6
0007-aio-timers
ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar"
#27: FILE: include/qemu/timer.h:22:
+typedef QEMUTimerList * QEMUTimerListGroup[QEMU_CLOCK_MAX];
total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 80 lines checked
aio-timer-patches-5/0007-aio-timers-Add-QEMUTimerListGroup-and-helper-functio.patch
has style problems, please review. If any of these errors
$ scripts/checkpatch.pl
aio-timer-patches-5/0007-aio-timers-Add-QEMUTimerListGroup-and-helper-functio.patch
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 80 lines checked
aio-timer-patches-5/0007-aio-timers-Add-QEMUTimerListGroup-and-helper-functio.patch
has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.