I took my best guess as to how to handle tabs and long lines in checkpatch.pl itself.
So I get: ... total: 0 errors, 7 warnings, 131 lines checked I also did not figure out how to run a more complete test of the change. Any pointers as to how would be helpful. Don Slutz (1): CHECKPATCH: Add warning for single else statement. scripts/checkpatch.pl | 72 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------------- 1 files changed, 48 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)