On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 05:40:11PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > $ egrep -r --include=*.c "\bif[[:space:]]*\([^\)]*\)[[:space:]]*\;" * > arch/sh/boards/se/7343/io.c: if (0) ; > drivers/atm/iphase.c: if (!desc1) ; > drivers/infiniband/hw/mlx4/mad.c: if (!err); > drivers/isdn/capi/capiutil.c: else if (c <= 0x0f); > drivers/net/tokenring/ibmtr.c: else if (ti->shared_ram_paging == 0xf); /* > No paging in adapter */ > drivers/s390/scsi/zfcp_erp.c: if (status == ZFCP_ERP_SUCCEEDED) ; > /* no further action */ > fs/hostfs/hostfs_user.c: if(attrs->ia_valid & HOSTFS_ATTR_CTIME) ; > net/netfilter/xt_u32.c: if (skb->len < 4 || pos > skb->len - 4); > sound/pci/au88x0/au88x0_synth.c: if (eax == 0) > ;
On Thu, Aug 16, 2007 at 02:18:40PM +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote: > A couple of people suggested adding checks to checkpatch for trailing > semicolons on conditionals, where the conditional block may not be > actually conditional: > > if (err); > return err; > > While regression testing the changes, I ran these checks across the > whole of 2.6.23-rc3 and there appear to be 5 places where this is > occurs (above and beyond the IPv6 one which triggered this effort) > and a benign use which could be confused later which it seems safest > to fix. > > Following this email are 6 patches for these issues, relevant > maintainers cc'd. All against 2.6.23-rc3 > It looks like you may want to refine your search parameters to match the above, as there are at least a few cases where the space exists. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
