Re: [PATCH V2 1/2] checkpatch: Expand parenthesis alignment test to declarations, functions and assignments

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Mon, 2014-03-31 at 15:06 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 14:58:07 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
> 
> > Currently the parenthesis alignment test works only on
> > misalignments of if statements like
> > 
> > 	if (foo(bar,
> > 			baz)
> > 
> > Expand the test to find misalignments like:
> > 
> > static inline int foo(int bar,
> > 			int baz)
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 	foo(bar,
> > 			baz);
> > 
> > and
> > 
> > 	foo = bar(baz,
> > 			qux);
> > 
> > Expand the $Inline keyword for __inline and __inline__ too.
> > Add $Inline to $Declare so it also matches "static inline <foo>".
> 
> I'm having trouble understanding what this patch actually does.  Some
> little examples would be nice.
> 
> I typed in this to play with:
> 
> void foo(int a,
> 		int b)
> {
> }
> 
> but I experienced playus interruptus
> 
> akpm3:/usr/src/25> perl scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c
> Global symbol "$c90_Keywords" requires explicit package name at scripts/checkpatch.pl line 2162.
> Execution of scripts/checkpatch.pl aborted due to compilation errors.
> 
> System is Ubuntu 12.04.4 (ish).

You have to apply it to -next (your mm queue)