On Tue, 2013-12-17 at 18:59 -0800, Jean-Baptiste Theou wrote:
> This patch fixes wrong curly bracket position reporting when function
> declarations have only one void argument.
> 
> Missing error (ERROR: space required before the open brace '{') on this
> situation :
> 
> int foo(void){
>       ...
> }

That's true for any declaration with { on the same line.

Perhaps this would be better:
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8f3aecd..c4dbb8a 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2784,7 +2784,8 @@ sub process {
 
 # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while,
 # or if closed on same line
-               if (($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\).*\s{/) and
+               if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+                   ($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*{\s*$/) &&
                    !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s{/) and !($line=~/}/)) {
                        ERROR("OPEN_BRACE",
                              "open brace '{' following function declarations 
go on the next line\n" . $herecurr);
@@ -3159,7 +3160,9 @@ sub process {
 ##             }
 
 #need space before brace following if, while, etc
-               if (($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) ||
+               if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 &&
+                   ($line !~ /$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*{\s*$/) &&
+                   ($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) ||
                    $line =~ /do{/) {
                        if (ERROR("SPACING",
                                  "space required before the open brace '{'\n" 
. $herecurr) &&


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