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| author | Joe Perches | 2014-10-13 15:51:51 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds | 2014-10-14 02:18:15 +0200 |
| commit | f17dba4fc0496eb0daf018074fccebdc85993c75 (patch) | |
| tree | 600a0d028973abcdbd469e4d31003bebdd01cd17 /scripts | |
| parent | 56193274ef54265afc93fd282655836595fcff9d (diff) | |
checkpatch: add --strict test for concatenated string elements
Using a space between concatenated string elements is easier for a human
to read.
ie:
"String"FOO"bar"
is easier to read as:
"String" FOO "bar"
So suggest this style with a --strict command line option.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
| -rwxr-xr-x | scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 969b365f8690..9846ddeafdf0 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -4344,6 +4344,12 @@ sub process { "Use of volatile is usually wrong: see Documentation/volatile-considered-harmful.txt\n" . $herecurr); } +# concatenated string without spaces between elements + if ($line =~ /"X+"[A-Z_]+/ || $line =~ /[A-Z_]+"X+"/) { + CHK("CONCATENATED_STRING", + "Concatenated strings should use spaces between elements\n" . $herecurr); + } + # warn about #if 0 if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if\s+0\b/) { CHK("REDUNDANT_CODE", |