Hi Bhakti,

On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 5:53 PM, Bhakti Priya [off-list ref] wrote:

Hi,

Thank you for your reply. I've just sent version 2 of the patch with
the blank lines removed.
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.

As I understand it, the algorithm needs to work like this:
1. For each patch hunk:
2. Filter out all lines that match /^-/
3. Remove the first character (" " or "+")
4. Normalise EOL characters: s/\r\n?/\n/
5. Over the entire hunk, find any case that matches
/({|\n)\s*\n\s*(\n|})/ where \s matches all space characters except
\n.
6. Report the middle line the preceding regular expression matches to the user.

I'm confident I can write it as a shell script, but I don't know
enough Perl to add that test to checkpatch.pl

Thanks,

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