Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: nested structs

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 04:55:30PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> This is required for nested struct/union compounds.
> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 58a9494..cf78e86 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -1582,7 +1582,7 @@ sub process {
>  
>  # closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
>  # on the line
> -		if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
> +		if ($line =~ /}+(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {
>  			ERROR("space required after that close brace '}'\n" . $herecurr);
>  		}

If my eyes are not lying then you have added is a + after the first },
as this is an unanchored match I would expect that to match in exactly
the same places.  Hmm, well I guess that it would allow two or more close
braces to abutt.  Can you give me an example of somethign which would
require this?

-apw