The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: trivial style fixes has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-trivial-style-fixes.patch This patch should soon appear at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-trivial-style-fixes.patch and later at https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-trivial-style-fixes.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/process/submit-checklist.rst when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: trivial style fixes Indentations should use tabs wherever possible. Replace spaces by tabs for indents. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210105103044.40282-1-dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 18 +++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-trivial-style-fixes +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2974,7 +2974,7 @@ sub process { } if (!defined $lines[$linenr]) { WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", - "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline); + "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline); } elsif ($rawlines[$linenr] !~ /^\s*signed-off-by:\s*(.*)/i) { WARN("BAD_SIGN_OFF", "Co-developed-by: must be immediately followed by Signed-off-by:\n" . "$here\n" . $rawline . "\n" .$rawlines[$linenr]); @@ -2997,8 +2997,8 @@ sub process { if (ERROR("GERRIT_CHANGE_ID", "Remove Gerrit Change-Id's before submitting upstream\n" . $herecurr) && $fix) { - fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline); - } + fix_delete_line($fixlinenr, $rawline); + } } # Check if the commit log is in a possible stack dump @@ -3240,10 +3240,10 @@ sub process { next if ($start_char =~ /^\S$/); next if (index(" \t.,;?!", $end_char) == -1); - # avoid repeating hex occurrences like 'ff ff fe 09 ...' - if ($first =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{2,}\b/i) { - next if (!exists($allow_repeated_words{lc($first)})); - } + # avoid repeating hex occurrences like 'ff ff fe 09 ...' + if ($first =~ /\b[0-9a-f]{2,}\b/i) { + next if (!exists($allow_repeated_words{lc($first)})); + } if (WARN("REPEATED_WORD", "Possible repeated word: '$first'\n" . $herecurr) && @@ -4432,7 +4432,7 @@ sub process { WARN("STATIC_CONST_CHAR_ARRAY", "char * array declaration might be better as static const\n" . $herecurr); - } + } # check for sizeof(foo)/sizeof(foo[0]) that could be ARRAY_SIZE(foo) if ($line =~ m@\bsizeof\s*\(\s*($Lval)\s*\)@) { @@ -5285,7 +5285,7 @@ sub process { $lines[$linenr - 3] !~ /^[ +]\s*$Ident\s*:/) { WARN("RETURN_VOID", "void function return statements are not generally useful\n" . $hereprev); - } + } # if statements using unnecessary parentheses - ie: if ((foo == bar)) if ($perl_version_ok && _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from dwaipayanray1@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-trivial-style-fixes.patch