checkpatch: check for whitespace before semicolon at EOL
Requires --strict option during invocation:
~/linux$ scripts/checkpatch --strict foo.patch
This tests for a bad habits of mine like this:
return 0 ;
Note that it does allow a special case of a bare semicolon
for empty loops:
while (foo())
;
Signed-off-by: Eric Nelson <eric.nelson@boundarydevices.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index faea0ec..2262e1f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2448,6 +2448,13 @@
"space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
+
+# check for whitespace before a non-naked semicolon
+ if ($line =~ /^\+.*\S\s+;/) {
+ CHK("SPACING",
+ "space prohibited before semicolon\n" . $herecurr);
+ }
+
# Check operator spacing.
if (!($line=~/\#\s*include/)) {
my $ops = qr{
