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

["Eilon Greenstein" <eilong@broadcom.com>]

On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 16:50 -0800, Joe Perches wrote:

Hi Joe, thanks for replying.

> On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 22:04 +0200, Eilon Greenstein wrote:
> > On Fri, 2012-11-16 at 11:55 -0800, David Rientjes wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2012, Eilon Greenstein wrote:

> > > This is fairly common in all the acpi code where variables declared in a 
> > > function are separated from the code in a function.
> > > 
> > 
> > Indeed, I see that you do use it in some functions.
> > 
> > Maybe we can limit it only to the networking tree (similar to the
> > networking comments style) or if the ACPI is the exception, we can apply
> > to all but ACPI.
> 
> I'm not sure this should be done.
> Double line spacing has some utility and
> is pretty common.

Since adding double empty line can cause a patch to be rejected, we
should have an easy way to catch it before submitting.

> Perhaps make this a --strict/CHK option
> and also perhaps make sure this isn't
> emitted on consecutive lines.

Indeed, CHK makes more sense. I wanted to have a warning per redundant
line, but since it can be annoying when adding 3 or more empty lines
intentionally, I will issue one comment for consecutive lines.

v2 is on its way.

Thanks,
Eilon