The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add --strict test for concatenated string elements has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-concatenated-string-elements.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add --strict test for concatenated string elements Using a space between concatenated string elements is easier for a human to read. ie: "String"FOO"bar" is easier to read as: "String" FOO "bar" So suggest this style with a --strict command line option. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-concatenated-string-elements scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-strict-test-for-concatenated-string-elements +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4344,6 +4344,12 @@ sub process { "Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n" . $herecurr); } +# concatenated string without spaces between elements + if ($line =~ /"X+"[A-Z_]+/ || $line =~ /[A-Z_]+"X+"/) { + CHK("CONCATENATED_STRING", + "Concatenated strings should use spaces between elements\n" . $herecurr); + } + # warn about #if 0 if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if\s+0\b/) { CHK("REDUNDANT_CODE", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch linux-next.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html