Re: [patch] checkpatch: warn on missing spaces in broken up quoted strings

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2014-06-13 at 12:46 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2014 at 02:30:22AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > > +# check for missing a space in a string concatination
> > > +        if ($prevrawline =~ /[^\\][a-zA-Z]"$/ && $rawline =~ /^\+[\t ]+"[a-zA-Z]/) {
> > > +            WARN('MISSING_SPACE',
> > > +                 "break quoted strings at a space character\n" . $hereprev);
> > > +        }
> > 
> > Probably want digits too so maybe \w instead of "[a-zA-Z]/

Couple nits:

The indentation isn't right here.

And this check is probably better placed immediately
after the "SPLIT_STRING" test.

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> ./drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:297 			       "0x%08x 0x%08x\n",
> ./drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_ctl.c:432 			       "0x%08x 0x%08x\n",
> ./drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_nx2.c:1457 	    "0x%X 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X 0x%X\n"
> 	- hex false positives

These look more like defects to me.

> I thought about doing that when I wrote my original patch but I was
> worried about more hex false positives.  If there are only those 3 then
> it's probably not a big deal.  What do you think?

I know it works on files, but I'm not sure it works on patches.

What happens when checking a single line replacement patch?

Likely the \\[a-zA-Z] check should include
all the tests that the multiple line string exceptions use.

(?:\\(?:[ntr]|[0-7]{1,3}|x[0-9a-fA-F]{1,2})|;\s*|\{\s*)"\s*$

cheers, Joe