checkpatch: add test for assignment at start of line
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tue, 10 Apr 2018 23:34:04 +0000 (16:34 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Wed, 11 Apr 2018 17:28:36 +0000 (10:28 -0700)
commit6a487211ec720658f3e3c39eecd0b6829eafa6d4
treea219f8b988c3d4165db26fffc112e1d86ed73de7
parentbc22d9a7d3aa76bc090d844e6aad18db9cc69237
checkpatch: add test for assignment at start of line

Kernel style seems to prefer line wrapping an assignment with the
assignment operator on the previous line like:

<leading tabs> identifier =
expression;
over
<leading tabs> identifier
= expression;

somewhere around a 50:1 ratio

$ git grep -P "[^=]=\s*$" -- "*.[ch]" | wc -l
52008
$ git grep -P "^\s+[\*\/\+\|\%\-]?=[^=>]" | wc -l
1161

So add a --strict test for that condition.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522275726.2210.12.camel@perches.com
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>
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