On Fri, 2014-06-20 at 22:04 +0200, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: > This might help a kernel hacker think twice before blindly adding a > newline.
Sure, fine by me. > 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 -- 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/

