Re: checkpatch.pl report about "Missing blank line after declarations" in a structure definition

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 09:35:49 EST


On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 11:20 +0000, Dotan Barak wrote:
> Hi Joe.
>
> Thanks for fixing the issue that I reported about.
>
> It seems that even after your fix, there is still a false warning of "Missing blank line after declarations".
>
> I executed checkpatch.pl on a header file that exists in the Linux tree:
> # ./checkpatch.pl --file --no-tree ../include/linux/mlx5/cq.h
>
> And got the following warning:
>
> WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
> #49: FILE: ../include/linux/mlx5/cq.h:49:
> + int irqn;
> + void (*comp) (struct mlx5_core_cq *);
[]
> As you can see, this is a structure definition and IMHO the warning above is false.

The version in Linus' tree has a defect where
this test doesn't recognize function pointer
declarations.

This is fixed in -next since June, but it takes
awhile to get into Linus' tree.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/6/426


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