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From: "Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: apw@canonical.com, joe@perches.com,
	"Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón" <carenas@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid false positive closing bracket with initializers
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 06:06:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20171023130605.65076-1-carenas@gmail.com> (raw)

when multiple closing brackets are being used for an universal zero
intializer as in (for example):

  struct timespec tv[10] = {{0}};

Signed-off-by: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas@gmail.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 8b80bac055e4..fe271697a2a8 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4423,7 +4423,7 @@ sub process {
 
 # closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
 # on the line
-		if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
+		if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|}|\)))\S/) {
 			if (ERROR("SPACING",
 				  "space required after that close brace '}'\n" . $herecurr) &&
 			    $fix) {
-- 
2.14.2

             reply	other threads:[~2017-10-23 13:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-10-23 13:06 Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón [this message]
2017-10-23 22:18 ` [PATCH] checkpatch: avoid false positive closing bracket with initializers Joe Perches

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