[RFC PATCH] checkpatch.pl: Add warning on non #define continuationlines

[Joe Perches]

On Tue, 2010-02-02 at 11:08 +0000, Mark Brown wrote:
> it'd be good to also check for just regular use of
> continuations in code other than macro definitions.  These are just a
> style nit but if there's a script that filters out false positives from
> the macros that'd be handy...

> Running "grep ' \\$' sound/soc/blackfin/*.[ch]" suggests that there's
> still some of the continuations I mentioned above in there (plus a lot
> of false positives from macros).

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 3257d3d..a174501 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1234,6 +1234,7 @@ sub process {
 
 	$realcnt = 0;
 	$linenr = 0;
+	my $in_define = 0;
 	foreach my $line (@lines) {
 		$linenr++;
 
@@ -1388,6 +1389,16 @@ sub process {
 			WARN("adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
 
+		if ($rawline =~ /\\$/) {
+		    if ($rawline =~ /\s*\#\s*define\s+/) {
+			$in_define = 1;
+		    } elsif (!$in_define) {
+			WARN("Continuations outside of macros should be avoided\n" . $herecurr);
+		    }
+		} else {
+		    $in_define = 0;
+		}
+
 # Blackfin: use hi/lo macros
 		if ($realfile =~ m@arch/blackfin/.*\.S$@) {
 			if ($line =~ /\.[lL][[:space:]]*=.*&[[:space:]]*0x[fF][fF][fF][fF]/) {


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