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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2011-05-24 17:13:39 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-05-25 08:39:55 -0700
commit428e2fdc4ecee2312829e97549f99c12312f4faf (patch)
tree5f5debb951822770cd6e325c6552e701a2874642 /scripts
parent5ca43f6c3b365024d889bc77064bb331f5a72a45 (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-xscripts/checkpatch.pl5
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)