The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: add test for assignment at start of line has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-add-test-for-assignment-at-start-of-line.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: add test for assignment at start of line Kernel style seems to prefer line wrapping an assignment with the assignment operator on the previous line like: <leading tabs> identifier = expression; over <leading tabs> identifier = expression; somewhere around a 50:1 ratio $ git grep -P "[^=]=\s*$" -- "*.[ch]" | wc -l 52008 $ git grep -P "^\s+[\*\/\+\|\%\-]?=[^=>]" | wc -l 1161 So add a --strict test for that condition. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522275726.2210.12.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx 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-test-for-assignment-at-start-of-line scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-test-for-assignment-at-start-of-line +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3062,6 +3062,12 @@ sub process { } } +# check for assignments on the start of a line + if ($sline =~ /^\+\s+($Assignment)[^=]/) { + CHK("ASSIGNMENT_CONTINUATIONS", + "Assignment operator '$1' should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev); + } + # check for && or || at the start of a line if ($rawline =~ /^\+\s*(&&|\|\|)/) { CHK("LOGICAL_CONTINUATIONS", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-add-a-strict-test-for-structs-with-bool-member-definitions.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