From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 05:02:15 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: checkpatch: square brackets -- exemption for array slices in braces
X-Git-Tag: v2.6.28-rc1~497
X-Git-Url: http://pilppa.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=fe2a7dbc85f37c721133c83c856f845c4ce9b602;p=linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git

checkpatch: square brackets -- exemption for array slices in braces

It is wholy reasonable to have square brackets representing array slices
in braces on the same line.  These should be spaced.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
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 bc677939822..6f821a0e002 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1493,11 +1493,13 @@ sub process {
 
 # check for spacing round square brackets; allowed:
 #  1. with a type on the left -- int [] a;
-#  2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0..10] = 5,
+#  2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0...10] = 5,
+#  3. inside a curly brace -- = { [0...10] = 5 }
 		while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
 			my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
 			if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
-			    ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/)) {
+			    ($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/) &&
+			    $prefix !~ /{\s+$/) {
 				ERROR("space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr);
 			}
 		}