Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 1 Nov 2010 04:10:03 +0000 | From | Andy Whitcroft <> | Subject | Re: New 2.6.36 checkpatch complaints about leading whitespace |
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On Sat, Oct 30, 2010 at 11:35:22AM +0200, Bart Van Assche wrote: > Hello Andy, > > Apparently the checkpatch.pl script as included in 2.6.36 complains if > continued lines start with whitespace. An example: > > [ ... ] > +#if defined(MACRO_NAME_1) || defined(MACRO_NAME_2) \ > + || defined(MACRO_NAME_3) > [ ... ] > > checkpatch.pl reports the following warning for the above patch excerpt: > > WARNING: please, no space for starting a line, > excluding comments > > Is that a feature or an unintended side effect of recent checkpatch changes ?
My personal expectation would be for that second line to be indented with a tab. But I might be convinced otherwise?
-apw
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