checkpatch: handle return types of pointers to functions

Make sure we correctly mark the return type of the pointer to a function
declaration.

    const void *(*sb_tag)(struct sysfs_tag_info *info);

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>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 775f2b146aa11a7326c431ea2fd6d6bcb8250ca2..6d07b6778c9102e0c01503d19af2299f5fbe6d1b 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -715,7 +715,7 @@ sub annotate_values {
                                $av_preprocessor = 0;
                        }
 
-               } elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\))/) {
+               } elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\()/) {
                        print "DECLARE($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
                        $type = 'T';