On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 12:23 +0530, Bhakti Priya wrote: > I will be happy to extend checkpatch.pl. As suggested by you, I am > trying to detect such blank lines in a line removal patch by checking > if the line above the deleted line was a blank line and the line > following the deleted line had a closing brace. > Can you please guide me and let me know if I am headed in the right > direction.
You have to track all the + and - lines that precede the deleted line. Good luck.
