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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
	u-boot@lists.denx.de, rylv50@freescale.com, marex@denx.de,
	vapier@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for whitespace before semicolon at end-of-line
Date: Thu, 03 May 2012 08:52:56 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1336060376.13866.6.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4FA28AF4.1000205@boundarydevices.com>

On Thu, 2012-05-03 at 06:41 -0700, Eric Nelson wrote:
> >> +# check for whitespace before semicolon - not allowed at end-of-line
> >> +		if ($line =~ /\s+;$/) {
> >
> > 		if ($line =~ /\s+;\s*$/)

> Won't the extra space at end of line be caught by other tests?

Yes it will.

You want the test to find the space before semicolon
whenever it exists.



      reply	other threads:[~2012-05-03 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <http://lists.denx.de/pipermail/u-boot/2012-May/123595.html>
2012-05-03  3:32 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: add check for whitespace before semicolon at end-of-line Eric Nelson
2012-05-03  3:58   ` Joe Perches
2012-05-03 13:41     ` Eric Nelson
2012-05-03 15:52       ` Joe Perches [this message]

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