checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation
authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:20:39 +0000 (15:20 -0800)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 7 Feb 2012 23:53:08 +0000 (15:53 -0800)
commit8eef05dd3e70233f3e391774d612dab44c3f023b
treedda65b15abaa42564d2e46424bfe6a7a73cc5681
parent6bd113f1f4a8c0d05c4dbadb300319e0e3526db4
checkpatch: Warn on code with 6+ tab indentation

Overly indented code should be refactored.

Suggest refactoring excessive indentation of of
if/else/for/do/while/switch statements.

For example:

$ cat t.c
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>

int main(int argc, char **argv)
{

if (1)
if (2)
if (3)
if (4)
if (5)
if (6)
if (7)
if (8)
;
return 0;
}

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f t.c
WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#12: FILE: t.c:12:
+ if (6)

WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#13: FILE: t.c:13:
+ if (7)

WARNING: Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring
#14: FILE: t.c:14:
+ if (8)

total: 0 errors, 3 warnings, 17 lines checked

t.c has style problems, please review.

If any of these errors are false positives, please report
them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl