linux-kernel - Re: [Proposal] end of file checks by checkpatch.pl

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Date:   Tue, 14 May 2019 09:54:48 +0900
From:   Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: Re: [Proposal] end of file checks by checkpatch.pl

On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 9:01 AM Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 2019-05-14 at 08:46 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> > So, I think these two checks can be done for
> > all file types.
> []
> > checkpatch.pl misses to report most of them.
> > (the majority of the warning source is *.json)
>
> Perhaps the json files should be ignored as more than
> half of the .json files in the tree are missing the
> newline at EOF.


I guess they are accident.

I do not think missing newline in *.json
is syntactically significant.


If we are unsure, it is better to ask the maintainers.


> And at least some of those json files use spaces for
> indentation and not tabs.

This is different stuff.

Indentation and newline at EOF are not linked.


-- 
Best Regards
Masahiro Yamada