checkpatch: add a placeholder to check blank lines before declarations

Figure out first how to determine if this is in a struct declaration or in
a function body before enabling this.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Joe Perches 2013-07-03 15:05:28 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3cc4b1c3f0
commit c4a62ef910

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@ -2750,6 +2750,14 @@ sub process {
"space required before the open brace '{'\n" . $herecurr);
}
## # check for blank lines before declarations
## if ($line =~ /^.\t+$Type\s+$Ident(?:\s*=.*)?;/ &&
## $prevrawline =~ /^.\s*$/) {
## WARN("SPACING",
## "No blank lines before declarations\n" . $hereprev);
## }
##
# closing brace should have a space following it when it has anything
# on the line
if ($line =~ /}(?!(?:,|;|\)))\S/) {