update checkpatch.pl to version 0.17
This version brings improvements to external declaration detection, fixes to quote tracking, fixes to unary tracking, some clarification of wording, and the usual slew of fixes for false positives. Of note: - much better unary tracking across preprocessor directives - UTF8 checks highlight the character at fault - widening of mutex detection Andy Whitcroft (17): Version: 0.17 values: __attribute__ carries through the previous type quotes: should only follow "positive" lines clarify the indent tabs over spaces wording loosen NR_CPUS check for array range initialisers detect external function declarations without an extern prefix function declaration arguments should be with the identifier DEFINE_MUTEX should report in line with struct mutex NR_CPUS is valid in preprocessor statements comment detection should not start on the @@ line types: add support for #undef tighten mutex/completion reports to usage allow export of function pointers values: preprocessor #define is out of line maintain values values: #define does not always have parentheses unary '*' may be const utf8 checks should report location of the invalid character Wolfram Sang (1): make checkpatch.pl really skip <asm/irq.h> 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>
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