Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Only warn for empty lines before closing braces by themselves

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2013-04-10 at 10:49 +0200, Matthijs Kooijman wrote:
> This check was intended to catch extra newlines at the end of a function
> definition, but it would trigger on any closing brace, including those
> of inline functions and macro definitions, triggering false positives.
> Now, only closing braces on a line by themselves trigger this check.
[]
> Signed-off-by: Matthijs Kooijman <matthijs@stdin.nl>

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>

> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 532c41b..f962c30 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3236,7 +3236,7 @@ sub process {
>  		}
>  
>  # check for unnecessary blank lines around braces
> -		if (($line =~ /^..*}\s*$/ && $prevline =~ /^.\s*$/)) {
> +		if (($line =~ /^.\s*}\s*$/ && $prevline =~ /^.\s*$/)) {
>  			CHK("BRACES",
>  			    "Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'\n" . $hereprev);
>  		}