Re: checkpatch: brackets around single statements fix

[Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>]

On Wed, May 02, 2012 at 11:10:46AM -0400, Joe Korty wrote:
> Checkpatch thinks '#else' is the same as 'else' in its check for
> this error:
> 
>    WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks
> 
> Signed-off-by: Joe Korty <joe.korty@ccur.com>
> 
> Index: linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/scripts/checkpatch.pl	2012-04-17 05:00:37.000000000 -0400
> +++ linux/scripts/checkpatch.pl	2012-05-02 10:29:03.000000000 -0400
> @@ -3038,7 +3038,7 @@
>  			}
>  		}
>  		if (!defined $suppress_ifbraces{$linenr - 1} &&
> -					$line =~ /\b(if|while|for|else)\b/) {
> +					$line =~ /[^#]\b(if|while|for|else)\b/) {
>  			my $allowed = 0;
>  
>  			# Check the pre-context.

Interesting.  Got an example I can use to add to the test suite.

-apw