The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve the TABSTOP test to include declarations has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: improve the TABSTOP test to include declarations Declarations should start on a tabstop too. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1b5f97673f36595956ad43329f77bf1a5546d2ff.1513976662.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-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~checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3020,7 +3020,7 @@ sub process { # check indentation starts on a tab stop if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && - $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$))/) { + $sline =~ /^\+\t+( +)(?:$c90_Keywords\b|\{\s*$|\}\s*(?:else\b|while\b|\s*$)|$Declare\s*$Ident\s*[;=\[])/) { my $indent = length($1); if ($indent % 8) { if (WARN("TABSTOP", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-ignore-some-octal-permissions-of-0.patch checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test.patch checkpatch-add-a-few-device_attr-style-tests.patch checkpatch-improve-the-tabstop-test-to-include-declarations.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