The patch titled
checkpatch: check spacing for square brackets
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
checkpatch-check-spacing-for-square-brackets.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree
The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/
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Subject: checkpatch: check spacing for square brackets
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Check on the spacing before square brackets. We should only allow spaces
there if this is part of a type definition or an initialialiser.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-spacing-for-square-brackets scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-spacing-for-square-brackets
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1435,6 +1435,17 @@ sub process {
ERROR("open brace '{' following $1 go on the same line\n" . $hereprev);
}
+# check for spacing round square brackets; allowed:
+# 1. with a type on the left -- int [] a;
+# 2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0..10] = 5,
+ while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
+ my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
+ if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
+ ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/)) {
+ ERROR("space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+ }
+
# check for spaces between functions and their parentheses.
while ($line =~ /($Ident)\s+\(/g) {
my $name = $1;
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
x86-implement-pte_special.patch
x86-implement-pte_special-fix.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
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