From c4a62ef9102bfa39f3bb89be2ae1ae11a23ebe28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Wed, 3 Jul 2013 15:05:28 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: add a placeholder to check blank lines before
 declarations

Figure out first how to determine if this is in a struct declaration or in
a function body before enabling this.

Signed-off-by: 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 | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 93b8e6693cb1..4ad40523b419 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2750,6 +2750,14 @@ sub process {
 			      "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
+## # check for blank lines before declarations
+##		if ($line =~ /^.\t+$Type\s+$Ident(?:\s*=.*)?;/ &&
+##		    $prevrawline =~ /^.\s*$/) {
+##			WARN("SPACING",
+##			     "No blank lines before declarations\n" . $hereprev);
+##		}
+##
+
 # closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
 # on the line
 		if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
-- 
2.39.5