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>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 93b8e66..4ad4052 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2750,6 +2750,14 @@
"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/) {