The patch titled checkpatch: trivial fix for trailing statements check has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-trivial-fix-for-trailing-statements-check.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://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/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: trivial fix for trailing statements check From: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> In case if the statement and the conditional are in one line, the line appears in the report doubly. And items of this check have no blank line before the next item. This patch fixes these trivial problems, to improve readability of the report. [sample.c] > if (cond1 > && cond2 > && cond3) func_foo(); > > if (cond4) func_bar(); Before: > ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line > #1: FILE: sample.c:1: > +if (cond1 > [...] > + && cond3) func_foo(); > ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line > #5: FILE: sample.c:5: > +if (cond4) func_bar(); > +if (cond4) func_bar(); > total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 5 lines checked After: > ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line > #1: FILE: sample.c:1: > +if (cond1 > [...] > + && cond3) func_foo(); > > ERROR: trailing statements should be on next line > #5: FILE: sample.c:5: > +if (cond4) func_bar(); > > total: 2 errors, 0 warnings, 5 lines checked Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-trivial-fix-for-trailing-statements-check scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-trivial-fix-for-trailing-statements-check +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2182,8 +2182,10 @@ sub process { # Find out how long the conditional actually is. my @newlines = ($c =~ /\n/gs); my $cond_lines = 1 + $#newlines; + my $stat_real = ''; - my $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, $cond_lines); + $stat_real = raw_line($linenr, $cond_lines) + . "\n" if ($cond_lines); if (defined($stat_real) && $cond_lines > 1) { $stat_real = "[...]\n$stat_real"; } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from seto.hidetoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch checkpatch-trivial-fix-for-trailing-statements-check.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