linux-kernel - Re: checkpatch.pl and no newline handling

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Message-ID: <20071113105524.GE12003@shadowen.org>
Date:	Tue, 13 Nov 2007 10:55:24 +0000
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
Cc:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl and no newline handling

On Mon, Nov 12, 2007 at 02:46:30PM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> the current checkpatch.pl does not reject new files that lack a
> newline, yet rejects patches that fix newlines in files ... quite the
> opposite of what we actually want

apw@...ky$ echo -n "moo" >no-newline.c
apw@...ky$ diff -Nu /dev/null no-newline.c | ./checkpatch.pl -q -no-tree
--no-signoff -
WARNING: adding a line without newline at end of file
#4: FILE: no-newline.c:1:
+moo

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 1 lines checked
apw@...ky$ echo "moo" >newline.c
apw@...ky$ diff -Nu no-newline.c newline.c | ./checkpatch.pl -q -no-tree
--no-signoff -
total: 0 errors, 0 warnings, 3 lines checked
apw@...ky$

This should be fixed in the 0.12 release and is fixed in -next.

-apw
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