The patch titled
checkpatch: square brackets -- exemption for array slices in braces
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.patch
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Subject: checkpatch: square brackets -- exemption for array slices in braces
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
It is wholy reasonable to have square brackets representing array slices
in braces on the same line. These should be spaced.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++--
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1493,11 +1493,13 @@ sub process {
# 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,
+# 2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0...10] = 5,
+# 3. inside a curly brace -- = { [0...10] = 5 }
while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
- ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/)) {
+ ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) &&
+ $prefix !~ /{\s+$/) {
ERROR("space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
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allocate-structures-for-reservation-tracking-in-hugetlbfs-outside-of-spinlocks-v2.patch
checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.patch
checkpatch-values-double-ampersand-may-be-unary.patch
checkpatch-conditional-indent-labels-have-different-indent-rules.patch
checkpatch-switch-indent-allow-plain-return.patch
checkpatch-add-tests-for-the-attribute-matcher.patch
checkpatch-____cacheline_aligned-et-al-are-modifiers.patch
checkpatch-complex-macros-fix-up-extension-handling.patch
checkpatch-fix-up-comment-checks-search-to-scan-the-entire-block.patch
checkpatch-include-asm-checks-should-be-anchored.patch
checkpatch-reduce-warnings-for-include-of-asm-fooh-to-check-from-arch-barc.patch
checkpatch-report-any-absolute-references-to-kernel-source-files.patch
checkpatch-report-the-real-first-line-of-all-suspect-indents.patch
checkpatch-suspect-indent-skip-over-preprocessor-label-and-blank-lines.patch
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checkpatch-report-the-correct-lines-for-single-statement-blocks.patch
checkpatch-perform-indent-checks-on-perl.patch
checkpatch-version-022.patch
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