Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add double empty line check

Andy Whitcroft
2012-11-20T19:32:55Z

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 09:10:35PM +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:

> About the logic - true, if diff will show deleted lines after newly
> added lines, some new double line segments will be missed. However, it
> seems like few other things will break if diff will start acting out
> like that. The suggestion you posted earlier will miss those as well,
> and starting to check for this weird case (of deleted lines after the
> added lines) does not seem right.

Actually the version I sent should indeed cope with the deleted lines
regardless of order. It was cirtainly intended to.

-apw