checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation
Overly indented code should be refactored.
Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of of
if/else/for/do/while/switch statements.
For example:
$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main(int argc, char **argv)
{
if (1)
if (2)
if (3)
if (4)
if (5)
if (6)
if (7)
if (8)
;
return 0;
}
$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#12: FILE: t.c:12:
+ if (6)
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#13: FILE: t.c:13:
+ if (7)
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#14: FILE: t.c:14:
+ if (8)
total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 17 lines checked
t.c has style problems, please review.
If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3bfcbe..a3b9782 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1924,6 +1924,12 @@
my $pre_ctx = "$1$2";
my ($level, @ctx) = ctx_statement_level($linenr, $realcnt, 0);
+
+ if ($line =~ /^\+\t{6,}/) {
+ WARN("DEEP_INDENTATION",
+ "Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
my $ctx_cnt = $realcnt - $#ctx - 1;
my $ctx = join("\n", @ctx);
