Re: [PATCH 6/7] checkpatch: fix false EXPORT_SYMBOL warning

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 11:58:21AM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-10-16 at 19:39 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> 
> > -				WARN("EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable\n" . $herecurr);
> > +#print "FOO A<$lines[$realline_next - 1]> stat<$stat> name<$name>\n";
> > +				$suppress_export{$realline_next} = 2;
> > +			} else {
> > +				$suppress_export{$realline_next} = 1;
> >  			}
> >  		}
> > +		if (!defined $suppress_export{$linenr} &&
> > +		    $prevline =~ /^.\s*$/ &&
> > +                    ($line =~ /EXPORT_SYMBOL.*\((.*)\)/ ||
> > +		     $line =~ /EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL.*\((.*)\)/)) {
> 
> ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
> #148: FILE: scripts/checkpatch.pl:1734:
> +                    ($line =~ /EXPORT_SYMBOL.*\((.*)\)/ ||$
> 
> This one line is spaced over instead of tabbed.. I guess checkpatch can
> even check itself, which is nice .. I'm not sure this matters since this
> it's perl tho..
> 
> Do you apply any kind of coding style to checkpatch itself ?

Yeah normally I checkpatch it, and ignore the width issues as the long
regexps are not always sensibly wrappable.  I rushed this lot out as I
am travelling tommorrow.  Sigh.  Never rush out a set of patches.

-apw