The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: allow consecutive close braces
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-allow-consecutive-close-braces.patch
This patch should soon appear at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-allow-consecutive-close-braces.patch
and later at
http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-allow-consecutive-close-braces.patch
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From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: allow consecutive close braces
checkpatch allows consecutive open braces, so it should also allow
consecutive close braces.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/bfdb49ae2c3fa7b52fa168769e38b48f959880e2.camel@xxxxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-consecutive-close-braces
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4687,7 +4687,7 @@ sub process {
# closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
# on the line
- if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
+ if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)|\}))\S/) {
if (ERROR("SPACING",
"space required after that close brace '}'\n" . $herecurr) &&
$fix) {
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are
string-add-stracpy-and-stracpy_pad-mechanisms.patch
kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api.patch
kernel-doc-core-api-include-stringh-into-core-api-v2.patch
checkpatch-dont-interpret-stack-dumps-as-commit-ids.patch
checkpatch-improve-spdx-license-checking.patch
checkpatch-prefer-__section-over-__attribute__section.patch
checkpatch-allow-consecutive-close-braces.patch
