linux-kernel - Re: possible new false positive in checkpatch

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Date:	Tue, 15 Sep 2015 16:01:23 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Tal Shorer <tal.shorer@...il.com>
Cc:	joe@...ches.com,
	"<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: possible new false positive in checkpatch

On Tue, Sep 15, 2015 at 05:50:40PM +0300, Tal Shorer wrote:

> > Yes it feels like that should be eliding them completely, and likely any
> > following space as well, something like this:
> >
> >         $s =~ s/$;+\s*//g;
> >         $c =~ s/$;+\s*//g;
> >
> Replacing the problematic lines with these fixes the issue.
> > > Introduced in commit 9f5af480f4554aac12e002b6f5c2b04895857700:
> > > checkpatch: improve SUSPECT_CODE_INDENT test
> > > Commenting out these lines removes the warning.
> > >
> > > This pattern exists in many places around the kernel source.
> > > Is this the intended behavior?
> >
> > Seems wrong to me.
> >
> > -apw
> 
> Which git tree is checkpatch developed in? Linus's?

Yeah in Linus' tree.

-apw
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