From 9a4cad4e25b91f48494f13fce3d25ea44bec7472 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eric Nelson Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 16:26:09 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index faea0ec..2262e1f 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/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{ -- 2.7.4