linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch.pl misses list_for_each

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Date:	Sat, 12 Jul 2014 20:10:19 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl misses list_for_each_entry() coding style issues

On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 16:08 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> static int foo_init(void)
> {
> 
> 	list_for_each_entry(foo, &foo, list)
> 	{
> 		do_something_foo(foo);
> 	}
> 
> 	return 0;
> }
> 
> Will not be caught by checkpatch:
> 
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --file foo.c 
> total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 11 lines checked
> 
> foo.c has no obvious style problems and is ready for submission.
> 
> 
> Any way to fix that up?

Probably.  Right now it only works on for/do tests.
It should probably also work on all functions.

I'll play with it.

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