On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 09:53 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> Checkpatch already complains when people break up quoted strings but
> it's still pretty common. One mistake that people often make is they
> leave out the space character between the two strings.
>
> This check adds 453 new warnings. There very few false positives, here
> is what they look like:
>
> 1) Most of the false positives are in crypto/testmgr.h where they just
> want a 10x10 block of sample text and don't care about the content.
> 2) There one commented place like this:
> "das08-aoh"
> "das08-aol"
> 3) There is one place which breaks the alphabet at the lower and upper
> case boundary.
> 4) There is one person who broke quoted strings at the 80 character mark
> without considering the content (that's not really a false positive,
> now that I think about it).
>
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpen...@oracle.com>
>
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
[]
> +# check for missing a space in a string concatination
> + if ($prevrawline =~ /[^\\][a-zA-Z]"$/ && $rawline =~ /^\+[\t
> ]+"[a-zA-Z]/) {
> + WARN('MISSING_SPACE',
> + "break quoted strings at a space character\n" . $hereprev);
> + }
Probably want digits too so maybe \w instead of "[a-zA-Z]/
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