From 8eef05dd3e70233f3e391774d612dab44c3f023b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Perches Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2012 15:20:39 -0800 Subject: checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation Overly indented code should be refactored. Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of of if/else/for/do/while/switch statements. For example: $ cat t.c #include #include int main(int argc, char **argv) { if (1) if (2) if (3) if (4) if (5) if (6) if (7) if (8) ; return 0; } $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring #12: FILE: t.c:12: + if (6) WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring #13: FILE: t.c:13: + if (7) WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring #14: FILE: t.c:14: + if (8) total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 17 lines checked t.c has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives, please report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) (limited to 'scripts') diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index e3bfcbe8a52..a3b9782441f 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -1924,6 +1924,12 @@ sub process { my $pre_ctx = "$1$2"; my ($level, @ctx) = ctx_statement_level($linenr, $realcnt, 0); + + if ($line =~ /^\+\t{6,}/) { + WARN("DEEP_INDENTATION", + "Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring\n" . $herecurr); + } + my $ctx_cnt = $realcnt - $#ctx - 1; my $ctx = join("\n", @ctx); -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2