The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch.pl: also suggest 'else if' when if follows brace
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatchpl-also-suggest-else-if-when-if-follows-brace.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
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From: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch.pl: also suggest 'else if' when if follows brace
This might help a kernel hacker think twice before blindly adding a
newline.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatchpl-also-suggest-else-if-when-if-follows-brace scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatchpl-also-suggest-else-if-when-if-follows-brace
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3621,7 +3621,7 @@ sub process {
# if should not continue a brace
if ($line =~ /}\s*if\b/) {
ERROR("TRAILING_STATEMENTS",
- "trailing statements should be on next line\n" .
+ "trailing statements should be on next line (or did you mean 'else if'?)\n" .
$herecurr);
}
# case and default should not have general statements after them
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
linux-next.patch
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