The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve OPEN_BRACE test has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-improve-open_brace-test.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-open_brace-test.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-open_brace-test.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 OPEN_BRACE test Some structure definitions that use macros trip the OPEN_BRACE test. e.g. +struct bpf_map_def SEC("maps") control_map = { Improve the test by using $balanced_parens instead of a .* Miscellanea: o Use $sline so any comments are ignored o Correct the message output from declaration to definition o Remove unnecessary parentheses Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/db9b772999d1d2fbda3b9ee24bbca81a87837e13.1517543491.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Song Liu <songliubraving@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-open_brace-test scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-open_brace-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3919,10 +3919,12 @@ sub process { # function brace can't be on same line, except for #defines of do while, # or if closed on same line - if (($line=~/$Type\s*$Ident\(.*\).*\s*{/) and - !($line=~/\#\s*define.*do\s\{/) and !($line=~/}/)) { + if ($^V && $^V ge 5.10.0 && + $sline =~ /$Type\s*$Ident\s*$balanced_parens\s*\{/ && + $sline !~ /\#\s*define\b.*do\s*\{/ && + $sline !~ /}/) { if (ERROR("OPEN_BRACE", - "open brace '{' following function declarations go on the next line\n" . $herecurr) && + "open brace '{' following function definitions go on the next line\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline); my $fixed_line = $rawline; _ 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 checkpatch-exclude-drivers-staging-from-if-with-unnecessary-parentheses-test.patch checkpatch-avoid-some-false-positives-for-tabstop-declaration-test.patch checkpatch-improve-open_brace-test.patch maintainers-remove-android-ion-pattern.patch maintainers-remove-arm-clkdev-support-file-pattern.patch maintainers-update-cortina-gemini-patterns.patch maintainers-update-arm-oxnas-platform-support-patterns.patch maintainers-update-various-palm-patterns.patch maintainers-update-arm-qualcomm-support-patterns.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