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checkpatch: avoid multiple line dereferences 

Code that puts a single dereferencing identifier on multiple lines like:

     struct_identifier->member[index].
	member = <foo>;

is generally hard to follow.

Prefer that dereferencing identifiers be single line.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/e9c191ae3f41bedc8ffd5c0fbcc5a1cec1d1d2df.1478120869.git.joe@perches.com
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
hifive-unleashed-5.1
Joe Perches 2016-12-12 16:46:31 -08:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent d6430f7180
commit 11ca40a0f8
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@ -3440,6 +3440,18 @@ sub process {
#ignore lines not being added
next if ($line =~ /^[^\+]/);
# check for dereferences that span multiple lines
if ($prevline =~ /^\+.*$Lval\s*(?:\.|->)\s*$/ &&
$line =~ /^\+\s*(?!\#\s*(?!define\s+|if))\s*$Lval/) {
$prevline =~ /($Lval\s*(?:\.|->))\s*$/;
my $ref = $1;
$line =~ /^.\s*($Lval)/;
$ref .= $1;
$ref =~ s/\s//g;
WARN("MULTILINE_DEREFERENCE",
"Avoid multiple line dereference - prefer '$ref'\n" . $hereprev);
}
# check for declarations of signed or unsigned without int
while ($line =~ m{\b($Declare)\s*(?!char\b|short\b|int\b|long\b)\s*($Ident)?\s*[=,;\[\)\(]}g) {
my $type = $1;