The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add ability to --fix unnecessary blank lines around braces has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-add-ability-to-fix-unnecessary-blank-lines-around-braces.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add ability to --fix unnecessary blank lines around braces There's a --strict test for these blank lines. Add the ability to automatically remove them with --fix. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 14 ++++++++++---- 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-ability-to-fix-unnecessary-blank-lines-around-braces scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-ability-to-fix-unnecessary-blank-lines-around-braces +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4461,12 +4461,18 @@ sub process { # check for unnecessary blank lines around braces if (($line =~ /^.\s*}\s*$/ && $prevrawline =~ /^.\s*$/)) { - CHK("BRACES", - "Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'\n" . $hereprev); + if (CHK("BRACES", + "Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'\n" . $hereprev) && + $fix && $prevrawline =~ /^\+/) { + fix_delete_line($fixlinenr - 1, $prevrawline); + } } if (($rawline =~ /^.\s*$/ && $prevline =~ /^..*{\s*$/)) { - CHK("BRACES", - "Blank lines aren't necessary after an open brace '{'\n" . $hereprev); + if (CHK("BRACES", + "Blank lines aren't necessary after an open brace '{'\n" . $hereprev) && + $fix) { + fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline); + } } # no volatiles please _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-utilc-add-kstrimdup.patch fs-ufs-superc-remove-unnecessary-casting.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