checkpatch: types may sit on a line on their own

When the following form is used we have a type which fully fills a line.
This means that a type may end at the end of line as well as at the
following identifier.

	int **
	foo;

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>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 0a87c7417ada..41f59b1e209b 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -843,7 +843,7 @@ sub annotate_values {
                                 $av_preprocessor = 0;
                         }
 
-                } elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\()/) {
+                } elsif ($cur =~ /^($Type)\s*(?:$Ident|,|\)|\(|\s*$)/) {
                         print "DECLARE($1)\n" if ($dbg_values > 1);
                         $type = 'T';