checkpatch: fix handling of leading spaces
I've got a false positive when spaces are present at the beginning of a
line.
So I add this check, obviously excluding to check the lines in the middle of
comments.
For instance this code passes the checkpatch test:
+struct davinci_mcbsp_data {
+ unsigned int fmt;
+ int clk_div;
+};
+
+static struct davinci_mcbsp_data mcbsp_data;
Where, before the string "int clk_div", I have 4 spaces (\040
ascii character).
With v2.6.34 scripts/checkpatch.pl script I get:
scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-ASoC-DaVinci-Added-support-for-stereo-I2S.patch
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 201 lines checked
0001-ASoC-DaVinci-Added-support-for-stereo-I2S.patch has no obvious style
problems and is ready for submission.
That is not correct. Instead with the proposed patch I get:
scripts/checkpatch.pl 0001-ASoC-DaVinci-Added-support-for-stereo-I2S.patch
WARNING: please, no space for starting a line,
excluding comments
#63: FILE: sound/soc/davinci/davinci-i2s.c:165:
+ int clk_div;$
WARNING: please, no space for starting a line,
excluding comments
#95: FILE: sound/soc/davinci/davinci-i2s.c:406:
+ return 0;$
total: 0 errors, 2 warnings, 201 lines checked
That is correct.
Signed-off-by: Raffaele Recalcati <[email protected]>
Cc: Wolfram Sang <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 315faf9..d7a44fd 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1454,6 +1454,13 @@
WARN("please, no space before tabs\n" . $herevet);
}
+# check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
+ if ($rawline =~ /^\+ / && $rawline !~ /\+ +\*/) {
+ my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
+ WARN("please, no space for starting a line, \
+ excluding comments\n" . $herevet);
+ }
+
# check we are in a valid C source file if not then ignore this hunk
next if ($realfile !~ /\.(h|c)$/);
