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| author | Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> | 2011-05-24 17:13:39 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2011-05-25 08:39:55 -0700 |
| commit | 428e2fdc4ecee2312829e97549f99c12312f4faf (patch) | |
| tree | 5f5debb951822770cd6e325c6552e701a2874642 /scripts | |
| parent | 5ca43f6c3b365024d889bc77064bb331f5a72a45 (diff) | |
checkpatch: add check for line continuations in quoted strings
Add a warning for unterminated quoted strings with line continuations as
these frequently add unwanted whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index d8670810db6..5c967295107 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2748,6 +2748,11 @@ sub process { WARN("sizeof(& should be avoided\n" . $herecurr); } +# check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of " + if ($rawline =~ /\\$/ && $rawline =~ tr/"/"/ % 2) { + WARN("Avoid line continuations in quoted strings\n" . $herecurr); + } + # check for new externs in .c files. if ($realfile =~ /\.c$/ && defined $stat && $stat =~ /^.\s*(?:extern\s+)?$Type\s+($Ident)(\s*)\(/s) |