checkpatch: check spacing for square brackets

Check on the spacing before square brackets.  We should only allow spaces
there if this is part of a type definition or an initialialiser.

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>
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Andy Whitcroft 2008-07-23 21:29:02 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent e2a763c20b
commit 8d31cfcecf

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@ -1435,6 +1435,17 @@ sub process {
ERROR("open brace '{' following $1 go on the same line\n" . $hereprev);
}
# check for spacing round square brackets; allowed:
# 1. with a type on the left -- int [] a;
# 2. at the beginning of a line for slice initialisers -- [0..10] = 5,
while ($line =~ /(.*?\s)\[/g) {
my ($where, $prefix) = ($-[1], $1);
if ($prefix !~ /$Type\s+$/ &&
($where != 0 || $prefix !~ /^.\s+$/)) {
ERROR("space prohibited before open square bracket '['\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
# check for spaces between functions and their parentheses.
while ($line =~ /($Ident)\s+\(/g) {
my $name = $1;