The patch titled checkpatch: switch -- report trailing statements on case and default has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-switch-report-trailing-statements-on-case-and-default.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 *** See http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: switch -- report trailing statements on case and default From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Report trailing statements on case and default lines. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-switch-report-trailing-statements-on-case-and-default scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-switch-report-trailing-statements-on-case-and-default +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1244,6 +1244,10 @@ sub process { ERROR("switch and case should be at the same indent\n$hereline$err"); } } + if ($line =~ /^.\s*(?:case\s*.*|default\s*):/g && + $line !~ /\G(?:\s*{)?(?:\s*$;*)(?:\s*\\)?\s*$/g) { + ERROR("trailing statements should be on next line\n" . $herecurr); + } # if/while/etc brace do not go on next line, unless defining a do while loop, # or if that brace on the next line is for something else _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-add-a-basic-debugging-framework-for-memory-initialisation.patch mm-add-a-basic-debugging-framework-for-memory-initialisation-fix.patch mm-verify-the-page-links-and-memory-model.patch mm-make-defensive-checks-around-pfn-values-registered-for-memory-usage.patch mm-print-out-the-zonelists-on-request-for-manual-verification.patch add-a-helper-function-to-test-if-an-object-is-on-the-stack.patch mm-move-bootmem-descriptors-definition-to-a-single-place.patch mm-fix-free_all_bootmem_core-alignment-check.patch mm-normalize-internal-argument-passing-of-bootmem-data.patch mm-unexport-__alloc_bootmem_core.patch buddy-clarify-comments-describing-buddy-merge.patch page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch page-flags-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly-xen.patch slub-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch slob-record-page-flag-overlays-explicitly.patch hugetlb-move-hugetlb_acct_memory.patch hugetlb-reserve-huge-pages-for-reliable-map_private-hugetlbfs-mappings-until-fork.patch hugetlb-guarantee-that-cow-faults-for-a-process-that-called-mmapmap_private-on-hugetlbfs-will-succeed.patch hugetlb-guarantee-that-cow-faults-for-a-process-that-called-mmapmap_private-on-hugetlbfs-will-succeed-fix.patch hugetlb-guarantee-that-cow-faults-for-a-process-that-called-mmapmap_private-on-hugetlbfs-will-succeed-build-fix.patch huge-page-private-reservation-review-cleanups.patch huge-page-private-reservation-review-cleanups-fix.patch mm-record-map_noreserve-status-on-vmas-and-fix-small-page-mprotect-reservations.patch hugetlb-move-reservation-region-support-earlier.patch hugetlb-allow-huge-page-mappings-to-be-created-without-reservations.patch hugetlb-allow-huge-page-mappings-to-be-created-without-reservations-cleanups.patch checkpatch-version-020.patch checkpatch-return-is-not-a-function-parentheses-for-casts-are-ok-too.patch checkpatch-types-some-types-may-also-be-identifiers.patch checkpatch-add-a-checkpatch-warning-for-new-uses-of-__initcall.patch checkpatch-possible-types-__asm__-is-never-a-type.patch checkpatch-comment-detection-ignore-macro-continuation-when-detecting-associated-comments.patch checkpatch-types-unary-goto-introduces-unary-context.patch checkpatch-macros-fix-statement-counting-block-end-detection.patch checkpatch-trailing-statement-indent-fix-end-of-statement-location.patch checkpatch-allow-printk-strings-to-exceed-80-characters-to-maintain-their-searchability.patch checkpatch-switch-report-trailing-statements-on-case-and-default.patch checkpatch-check-spacing-for-square-brackets.patch checkpatch-toughen-trailing-if-statement-checks-and-extend-them-to-while-and-for.patch checkpatch-condition-loop-indent-checks.patch checkpatch-usb_free_urb-can-take-null.patch checkpatch-correct-spelling-in-kfree-checks.patch checkpatch-allow-for-type-modifiers-on-multiple-declarations.patch checkpatch-improve-type-matcher-debug.patch checkpatch-possible-modifiers-are-not-being-correctly-matched.patch checkpatch-macro-complexity-checks-are-meaningless-in-linker-scripts.patch checkpatch-handle-return-types-of-pointers-to-functions.patch checkpatch-possible-types-known-modifiers-cannot-be-types.patch checkpatch-possible-modifiers-handle-multiple-modifiers-and-trailing.patch x86-implement-pte_special.patch mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast.patch mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast-fix.patch mm-introduce-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast.patch x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-checkpatch-fixes.patch x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix.patch x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-2.patch x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-2-fix-fix.patch x86-lockless-get_user_pages_fast-fix-warning.patch dio-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch splice-use-get_user_pages_fast.patch page-owner-tracking-leak-detector.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