linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker

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Date:	Wed, 30 May 2007 08:33:07 -0700
From:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
CC:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>,
	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] add a trivial patch style checker

Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> On May 29 2007 15:36, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>>>>> +		if($line=~/^\s*[A-Za-z\d_]+:/ and !($line=~/^\s*default:/)){
>>>>>> +			print "Gotos should not be indented\n";
>>>>>> +			print "$herecurr";
>>>>>> +			$clean = 0;
>>>>>> +		}
>>>>> emacs generates one space label in front of a goto label. I wouldn't
>>>>> outlaw this.
>>>> Yep, we also now allow one space something to do with diff -p not
>>>> getting confused...
>>> Not only diff and emacs. At least joe (joe.sf.net) is another editor
> [...]
>> That's just a joe bug then.
>>
>> diff no longer requires a beginning space, at least in the testing
>> that I did it worked with no leading space on a label:.
> 
> But not everyone runs the latest and greatest. diffutils 2.8.7
> takes /^label:/ as a marker for the @@ line.

OK.  What does "marker for the @@ line" mean?

-- 
~Randy
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