Peter Hurley wrote:
The use of older function ptr calling style, (*fn)(), makes static
analysis more error-prone; replace with modern fn() style.
So make checkpatch emit a --strict test for that condition.
Update the unnecessary parentheses test for dereferencing
objects at the same time and create a $fix mechanism too.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Peter Hurley <peter@hurleysoftware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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