The patch titled checkpatch: square brackets -- exemption for array slices in braces has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-square-brackets-exemption-for-array-slices-in-braces.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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); } } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch mm-hugetlbc-make-functions-static-use-null-rather-than-0.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