On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 12:23 +0530, Bhakti Priya wrote:

I will be happy to extend checkpatch.pl. As suggested by you, I am
trying to detect such blank lines in a line removal patch by checking
if the line above the deleted line was a blank line and the line
following the deleted line had a closing brace.
Can you please guide me and let me know if I am headed in the right
direction.

You have to track all the + and - lines that precede the
deleted line.

Good luck.