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checkpatch: check for whitespace before semicolon at EOL
authorEric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Thu, 31 May 2012 23:26:09 +0000 (16:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Fri, 1 Jun 2012 00:49:27 +0000 (17:49 -0700)
Requires --strict option during invocation:
~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch

This tests for a bad habits of mine like this:

return 0 ;

Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon
for empty loops:

while (foo())
;

Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index faea0ec612bfed2932ca5dc25868fe00888a5afc..2262e1f57fa6f3fad3f4329e122454874d48ff76 100755 (executable)
@@ -2448,6 +2448,13 @@ sub process {
                                     "space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
                        }
                }
+
+# check for whitespace before a non-naked semicolon
+               if ($line =~ /^\+.*\S\s+;/) {
+                       CHK("SPACING",
+                           "space prohibited before semicolon\n" . $herecurr);
+               }
+
 # Check operator spacing.
                if (!($line=~/\#\s*include/)) {
                        my $ops = qr{