The patch titled checkpatch: fix regressions in "fix handling of leading spaces" has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces.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: fix regressions in "fix handling of leading spaces" From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The patch "checkpatch: fix handling of leading spaces" added checks for leading spaces on lines, but this introduces regressions. Firstly it does not correctly detect when we are in a comment. Secondly it does not allow for preprocessor command spacing. Finally it does not allow for label indentation which is required to be less than one tab. Fix these up: Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 ++++++--- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1459,10 +1459,13 @@ sub process { } # check for spaces at the beginning of a line. - if ($rawline =~ /^\+ / && $rawline !~ /\+ +\*/) { +# Exceptions: +# 1) within comments +# 2) indented preprocessor commands +# 3) hanging labels + if ($rawline =~ /^\+ / && $line !~ /\+ *(?:$;|#|$Ident:)/) { my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n"; - WARN("please, no space for starting a line, \ - excluding comments\n" . $herevet); + WARN("please, no spaces at the start of a line\n" . $herevet); } # check we are in a valid C source file if not then ignore this hunk _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-fix-regressions-in-fix-handling-of-leading-spaces.patch checkpatch-types-may-sit-on-a-line-on-their-own.patch checkpatch-suggest-cleanpatch-and-cleanfile-when-appropriate.patch checkpatch-ensure-we-do-not-collapse-bracketed-sections-into-constants.patch checkpatch-handle-casts-better-fixing-false-categorisation-of-as-binary.patch checkpatch-returning-errno-typically-should-be-negative.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-space-after-struct-union-and-enum.patch checkpatch-simplify-and-consolidate-missing-space-after-checks.patch checkpatch-ensure-kconfig-help-checks-only-apply-when-we-are-adding-help.patch checkpatch-check-for-incorrect-permissions.patch checkpatch-add-additional-attribute-defines.patch checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch checkpatch-clean-up-structure-definition-macro-handline.patch checkpatch-handle-export_symbol-for-device_attr-and-similar.patch checkpatch-statement-block-context-analyser-should-look-at-sanitised-lines.patch checkpatch-version-031.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