From 99423c2065b62fee41cdbd8da7e63bf1f8f9e9b0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:50:15 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: fix __attribute__ matching

In the following code,

union thread_union init_thread_union
	__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) =
		{ INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task) };

There is a non-conforming declaration. It should really be like the
following,

union thread_union init_thread_union
	__attribute__((__section__(".data.init_task"))) = {
		INIT_THREAD_INFO(init_task)
};

However, checkpatch doesn't catch this right now because it doesn't
correctly evaluate the "__attribute__".

It is not at all clear that we care what preceeds an assignment style
attribute when we find the open brace.  Relax the test so we do not need
to check the __attribute__.

Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index cb2dac37aaff..ba105a848396 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1669,8 +1669,8 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # check for initialisation to aggregates open brace on the next line
-		if ($prevline =~ /$Declare\s*$Ident\s*=\s*$/ &&
-		    $line =~ /^.\s*{/) {
+		if ($line =~ /^.\s*{/ &&
+		    $prevline =~ /(?:^|[^=])=\s*$/) {
 			ERROR("that open brace { should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev);
 		}
 
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