This might help a kernel hacker think twice before blindly adding a newline.
Signed-off-by: Rasmus Villemoes <[email protected]> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 010b18e..e1924eb 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3601,7 +3601,7 @@ sub process { # if should not continue a brace if ($line =~ /}\s*if\b/) { ERROR("TRAILING_STATEMENTS", - "trailing statements should be on next line\n" . + "trailing statements should be on next line (or did you mean 'else if'?)\n" . $herecurr); } # case and default should not have general statements after them -- 1.9.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
