On Thu, 2020-11-19 at 00:03 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:44 PM Joe Perches <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2020-11-18 at 18:10 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote: > > > Brace style misuses of the following types are now > > > corrected: > > [] > > > diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl > > [] > > > @@ -3937,9 +3937,23 @@ sub process { > > > #print > > > "pre<$pre_ctx>\nline<$line>\nctx<$ctx>\nnext<$lines[$ctx_ln - 1]>\n"; > > > > > > > > > if ($ctx !~ /{\s*/ && defined($lines[$ctx_ln - 1]) > > > && $lines[$ctx_ln - 1] =~ /^\+\s*{/) { > > > - ERROR("OPEN_BRACE", > > > - "that open brace { should be on the > > > previous line\n" . > > > - "$here\n$ctx\n$rawlines[$ctx_ln - > > > 1]\n"); > > > + if (ERROR("OPEN_BRACE", > > > + "that open brace { should be on > > > the previous line\n" . > > > + > > > "$here\n$ctx\n$rawlines[$ctx_ln - 1]\n") && > > > + $fix) { > > > + my $line1 = $rawlines[$ctx_ln - 2]; > > > > How are you sure that in a patch context this line always starts with /^\+/ > > ? > > Hi, > I followed it from the other fixes for OPEN_BRACE which were already > there. In the patch context if the lines are added then only I think the fix > should be triggered. Other instances should not be modified.
As far as I know there are no existing uses of --fix with OPEN_BRACE.

