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checkpatch: warn on missing spaces in broken up quoted 

Checkpatch already complains when people break up quoted strings but
it's still pretty common.  One mistake that people often make is they
leave out the space character between the two strings.

This check adds around 450 new warnings and has a low rate of false
positives.

Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Acked-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
Dan Carpenter 2014-08-06 16:11:29 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 308cc8d8f0
commit ece9659f16
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@ -2361,6 +2361,12 @@ sub process {
"quoted string split across lines\n" . $hereprev);
}
# check for missing a space in a string concatination
if ($prevrawline =~ /[^\\]\w"$/ && $rawline =~ /^\+[\t ]+"\w/) {
WARN('MISSING_SPACE',
"break quoted strings at a space character\n" . $hereprev);
}
# check for spaces before a quoted newline
if ($rawline =~ /^.*\".*\s\\n/) {
if (WARN("QUOTED_WHITESPACE_BEFORE_NEWLINE",