Messages in this thread Patch in this message | | | Subject | [PATCH] Warn on unnecessary spaces before quoted newlines | From | Joe Perches <> | Date | Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:34:15 -0800 |
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Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> --- diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 3257d3d..4a4d55c 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1383,6 +1383,11 @@ 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);
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