linux-kernel - [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation

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Message-ID: <1328311239.21255.24.camel@joe2Laptop>
Date:	Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:20:39 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...nvz.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation

Overly indented code should be refactored.

Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of
of if/else/for/do/while/switch statements.

For example:

$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{

	if (1)
		if (2)
			if (3)
				if (4)
					if (5)
						if (6)
							if (7)
								if (8)
									;
	return 0;
}

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#12: FILE: t.c:12:
+						if (6)

WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#13: FILE: t.c:13:
+							if (7)

WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#14: FILE: t.c:14:
+								if (8)

total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 17 lines checked

t.c has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
---
On Fri, 2012-02-03 at 13:27 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> So no, 100-char columns are not ok.

Perhaps this is a reasonable alternative.

Another might be to limit variable name length to something
shorter than say 10 characters.

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    6 ++++++
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2b52aeb..89d24b3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1924,6 +1924,12 @@ sub process {
 			my $pre_ctx = "$1$2";
 
 			my ($level, @ctx) = ctx_statement_level($linenr, $realcnt, 0);
+
+			if ($line =~ /^\+\t{6,}/) {
+				WARN("DEEP_INDENTATION",
+				     "Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring\n" . $herecurr);
+			}
+
 			my $ctx_cnt = $realcnt - $#ctx - 1;
 			my $ctx = join("\n", @ctx);
 


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