From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>

When checking spacing for pointer checks the type cannot start in the
middle of a word, ie. this is not 'int * bar':

	x = fooint * bar;

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    4 ++--
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-types-cannot-start-mid-word-for-pointer-tests scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-types-cannot-start-mid-word-for-pointer-tests
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1435,11 +1435,11 @@ sub process {
 			ERROR("\"(foo $1 )\" should be \"(foo $1)\"\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 
-		} elsif ($line =~ m{$NonptrType(\*+)(?:\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))?\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
+		} elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType(\*+)(?:\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))?\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
 			ERROR("\"foo$1 bar\" should be \"foo $1bar\"\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 
-		} elsif ($line =~ m{$NonptrType\s+(\*+)(?!\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
+		} elsif ($line =~ m{\b$NonptrType\s+(\*+)(?!\s+(?:$Attribute|$Sparse))\s+[A-Za-z\d_]+}) {
 			ERROR("\"foo $1 bar\" should be \"foo $1bar\"\n" .
 				$herecurr);
 		}
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