From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 21:51:06 +0000 (-0800)
Subject: checkpatch: if should not continue a preceeding brace
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.29-rc2~36
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=39667782362becd5527e48d6c976a9f9985b95e6;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

checkpatch: if should not continue a preceeding brace

We should not be continuing a braced section with an if, for example:

	if (...) {
	} if (...) {
	}

Detect this and suggest adding a newline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 696196e194f..5ea55e330c2 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2108,6 +2108,11 @@ sub process {
 				ERROR("trailing statements should be on next line\n" . $herecurr);
 			}
 		}
+# if should not continue a brace
+		if ($line =~ /}\s*if\b/) {
+			ERROR("trailing statements should be on next line\n" .
+				$herecurr);
+		}
 # case and default should not have general statements after them
 		if ($line =~ /^.\s*(?:case\s*.*|default\s*):/g &&
 		    $line !~ /\G(?: