Currently, checkpatch warns us if an assignment operator is placed
at the start of a line and not at the end of previous line.
E.g., running checkpatch on commit 8195b1396ec8 ("hv_netvsc: fix
deadlock on hotplug") reports:
CHECK: Assignment operator '=' should be on the previous line
+ struct netvsc_device *nvdev
+ = container_of(w, struct netvsc_device, subchan_work);
Provide a simple fix by appending assignment operator to the previous
line and removing from the current line, if both the lines are additions
(ie start with '+')
Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <[email protected]>
---
Changes in v2:
add check if both the lines are additions (ie start with '+')
Changes in v3:
quote $operator; test with division assignment operator ('/=')
Changes in v4:
fix incorrect use of quote
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 ++++++++--
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2749f32dffe9..d4c8d42cb13e 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3533,8 +3533,14 @@ sub process {
# check for assignments on the start of a line
if ($sline =~ /^\+\s+($Assignment)[^=]/) {
- CHK("ASSIGNMENT_CONTINUATIONS",
- "Assignment operator '$1' should be on the previous
line\n" . $hereprev);
+ my $operator = $1;
+ if (CHK("ASSIGNMENT_CONTINUATIONS",
+ "Assignment operator '$1' should be on the
previous line\n" . $hereprev) &&
+ $fix && $prevrawline =~ /^\+/) {
+ # add assignment operator to the previous line,
remove from current line
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr - 1] .= " $operator";
+ $fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\Q$operator\E\s*//;
+ }
}
# check for && or || at the start of a line
--
2.17.1
