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) && -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/