This patch fixes wrong curly bracket position reporting when function declarations have only one void argument.
Missing error (ERROR: space required before the open brace '{') on this situation : int foo(void){ ... } Signed-off-by: Jean-Baptiste Theou <jth...@adeneo-embedded.us> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 8f3aecd..3a18c5e 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3159,7 +3159,7 @@ sub process { ## } #need space before brace following if, while, etc - if (($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && $line !~ /\($Type\){/) || + if (($line =~ /\(.*\){/ && ($line =~ /\(void\){/ || $line !~ /\($Type\){/)) || $line =~ /do{/) { if (ERROR("SPACING", "space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr) && -- 1.8.4.2 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/