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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2010-03-05 13:43:55 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-03-06 11:26:44 -0800 |
| commit | 5e79d96eed306a8b4af67b3f35f6867edfabeebc (patch) | |
| tree | fdd6da6cc21c874b386e40ac9d7e5b8de6441cb9 /scripts/checkpatch.pl | |
| parent | 08e4436566250cb98b3f3ac37643b1cf09481256 (diff) | |
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checkpatch: warn on unnecessary spaces before quoted newlines
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index cf4e44cf3c27..a4d74344d805 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1394,6 +1394,11 @@ sub process { WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for spaces before a quoted newline + if ($rawline =~ /^.*\".*\s\\n/) { + WARN("unnecessary whitespace before a quoted newline\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for adding lines without a newline. if ($line =~ /^\+/ && defined $lines[$linenr] && $lines[$linenr] =~ /^\\ No newline at end of file/) { WARN("adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr); |