Re: [PATCH] scripts: checkpatch.pl: Fix existing typedef false positive warning

[Greg Donald]

On Sun, Sep 21, 2014 at 9:31 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 2014-09-21 at 20:32 -0500, Greg Donald wrote:
>> Fixing an "open brace '{' following struct go on the same line" error causes a
>> false positive warning "do not add new typedefs". Fix existing typedef false
>> positive warning.
>
> This doesn't work.
> The matching deleted line can be any number of lines above.

But this fixes the most common case:

-typedef struct ksock_proto
-{
+typedef struct ksock_proto {

If you're wanting to check more than just $rawlines[$linenr - 3], how
far above does it make sense to go?  From what I'm seeing the '{' is
usually on the next line.


-- 
Greg Donald
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