The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: check for whitespace before semicolon at EOL has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-check-for-whitespace-before-semicolon-at-eol.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/ ------------------------------------------------------ From: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: check for whitespace before semicolon at EOL Requires --strict option during invocation: ~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch This tests for a bad habits of mine like this: return 0 ; Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon for empty loops: while (foo()) ; Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-for-whitespace-before-semicolon-at-eol scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-check-for-whitespace-before-semicolon-at-eol +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2448,6 +2448,13 @@ sub process { "space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr); } } + +# check for whitespace before a non-naked semicolon + if ($line =~ /^\+.*\S\s+;/) { + CHK("SPACING", + "space prohibited before semicolon\n" . $herecurr); + } + # Check operator spacing. if (!($line=~/\#\s*include/)) { my $ops = qr{ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from eric.nelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.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