The patch titled checkpatch: warn on unnecessary spaces before quoted newlines has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-spaces-before-quoted-newlines.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: warn on unnecessary spaces before quoted newlines From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-spaces-before-quoted-newlines scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-spaces-before-quoted-newlines +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1394,6 +1394,11 @@ sub process { WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for spaces before a quoted newline + if ($rawline =~ /^.*\".*\s\\n/) { + WARN("unnecessary whitespace before a quoted newline\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for adding lines without a newline. if ($line =~ /^\+/ && defined $lines[$linenr] && $lines[$linenr] =~ /^\\ No newline at end of file/) { WARN("adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch get_maintainerpl-teach-git-log-to-use-no-color.patch net-rds-remove-uses-of-nipquad-use-%pi4.patch net-sunrpc-remove-uses-of-nipquad-use-%pi4.patch fs-ocfs2-cluster-tcpc-remove-use-of-nipquad-use-%pi4.patch drivers-scsi-correct-the-size-argument-to-kmalloc.patch drivers-scsi-remove-uses-of-nipquad-use-%pi4.patch drivers-firmware-iscsi_ibftc-remove-nipquad_fmt-use-%pi4.patch drivers-block-floppyc-convert-some-include-asm-to-include-linux.patch drivers-block-floppyc-define-space-and-column-neatening.patch drivers-block-floppyc-use-pr_level.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-braces.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-used-once-check_ready-macro.patch drivers-block-floppyc-hoist-assigns-from-ifs-neatening.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-last_out-macro.patch drivers-block-floppyc-comment-neatening-and-remove-naked.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-clearstruct-macro-use-memset.patch drivers-block-floppyc-indent-a-comment.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-in-out-macros-indent-switch-case.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-a-few-spaces-from-function-casts.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-macro-lock_fdc.patch drivers-block-floppyc-add-debug_dcl-macro.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-clearf-setf-and-testf-macros.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-most-uses-of-call-and-ecall-macros.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-copyin-copyout-and-ecall-macros.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-macros-call-wait-and-iwait.patch drivers-block-floppyc-convert-int-1-0-to-bool-true-false.patch drivers-block-floppyc-move-leading-and-to-preceding-line.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-define-device_name-floppy.patch drivers-block-floppyc-convert-int-initialising-to-bool-initialized.patch drivers-block-floppyc-add-function-is_ready_state.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-return-and-braces.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-repeat-macro.patch drivers-block-floppyc-unclutter-redo_fd_request-logic.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-argument-from-reschedule_timeout.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-define-floppy_sanity_check.patch drivers-block-floppyc-dprint-neatening.patch drivers-block-floppyc-use-__func__-where-appropriate.patch drivers-block-floppyc-use-%pf-in-logging-messages.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-some-unnecessary-casting.patch drivers-block-floppyc-convert-raw_cmd_copyin-from-while1-to-label-goto.patch drivers-block-floppyc-add-__func__-to-debugt.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-obfuscating-code2size-macro.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-misleading-used-once-fd_ioctl_allowed-macro.patch drivers-block-floppyc-remove-unnecessary-casting-in-fd_ioctl.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-file-emails-find-embedded-email-addresses.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-file-emails-find-embedded-email-addresses-v2.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-add-sections-print-entire-matched-subsystem.patch scripts-get_maintainerpl-change-sections-to-print-in-the-same-style-as-maintainers.patch maintainers-remove-amd-geode-f-arch-x86-kernel-geode_32c.patch maintainers-remove-hayes-esp-serial-driver.patch maintainers-update-performance-events-f-patterns.patch maintainers-starmode-radio-ip-strip-moved-to-staging.patch maintainers-wavelan-moved-to-staging.patch lib-stringc-simplify-stricmp.patch lib-stringc-simplify-strnstr.patch scripts-checkpatchpl-add-warn-on-sizeof.patch checkpatchpl-allow-80-char-lines-for-logging-functions-not-just-printk.patch checkpatch-warn-on-unnecessary-spaces-before-quoted-newlines.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