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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-10-15 22:02:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-10-16 11:21:34 -0700
commit1bdab9e5881fde3bf66528db5b91477ce4b35b3b (patch)
tree286e57468f42dd1acb83d810d049598b7e3978a6 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent14b111c158116f02c1c862397075e28ac12d65d6 (diff)
checkpatch: switch indent allow plain return
It is a common and sane idiom to allow a single return on the end of a case statement: switch (...) { case foo: return bar; } Add an exception for this. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1e7d2cdd0c2..c6782ac6f13 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1295,7 +1295,11 @@ sub process {
}
}
if ($line =~ /^.\s*(?:case\s*.*|default\s*):/g &&
- $line !~ /\G(?:\s*{)?(?:\s*$;*)(?:\s*\\)?\s*$/g) {
+ $line !~ /\G(?:
+ (?:\s*{)?(?:\s*$;*)(?:\s*\\)?\s*$|
+ \s*return\s+
+ )/xg)
+ {
ERROR("trailing statements should be on next line\n" . $herecurr);
}