From: Andy Whitcroft Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:29:02 +0000 (-0700) Subject: checkpatch: check spacing for square brackets X-Git-Url: https://git.stricted.de/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=8d31cfcecf67563d70cd68616cb8fb4384f24b51;p=GitHub%2FLineageOS%2Fandroid_kernel_samsung_universal7580.git checkpatch: check spacing for square brackets Check on the spacing before square brackets. We should only allow spaces there if this is part of a type definition or an initialialiser. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 5f71b305025..e7c8ab1b54b 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1435,6 +1435,17 @@ sub process { ERROR("open brace '{' following $1 go on the same line\n" . $hereprev); } +# check for spacing round square brackets; allowed: +# 1. with a type on the left -- int [] a; +# 2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0..10] = 5, + while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) { + my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1); + if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ && + ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/)) { + ERROR("space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr); + } + } + # check for spaces between functions and their parentheses. while ($line =~ /($Ident)\s+\(/g) { my $name = $1;