Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] scripts/checkpatch.pl: Don't allow special cases of unspaced operators

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 18/12/2015 13:59, Peter Maydell wrote:
> The checkpatch.pl script has a special case to permit the following
> operators to have no spaces around them:
>  <<  >>  &  ^  |  +  -  *  /  %
> 
> QEMU style prefers all operators to consistently have spacing around
> them, so remove this special case handling. This avoids reviewers
> having to manually note it during code review.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> ---
> I actually thought failing to point out the lack of spaces was
> a checkpatch parsing bug until I looked in the source and found it
> was deliberate...
> 
> I say "QEMU style prefers", but possibly what I actually mean is
> "I prefer" ? Does anybody want to defend the unspaced versions?

No thanks.  Let's save to bikeshedding for important stuff such as line
lengths.  :)

Paolo

>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 13 -------------
>  1 file changed, 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index b0f6e11..efca817 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1890,19 +1890,6 @@ sub process {
>  						ERROR("space prohibited after that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr);
>  					}
>  
> -
> -				# << and >> may either have or not have spaces both sides
> -				} elsif ($op eq '<<' or $op eq '>>' or
> -					 $op eq '&' or $op eq '^' or $op eq '|' or
> -					 $op eq '+' or $op eq '-' or
> -					 $op eq '*' or $op eq '/' or
> -					 $op eq '%')
> -				{
> -					if ($ctx =~ /Wx[^WCE]|[^WCE]xW/) {
> -						ERROR("need consistent spacing around '$op' $at\n" .
> -							$hereptr);
> -					}
> -
>  				# A colon needs no spaces before when it is
>  				# terminating a case value or a label.
>  				} elsif ($opv eq ':C' || $opv eq ':L') {
>