Re: rfc: checkpatch logical line continuations

From: David Miller
Date: Fri Mar 07 2014 - 16:23:57 EST


From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2014 13:02:44 -0800

> Right now, checkpatch emits a --strict only warning on "&&" or "||"
> at the beginning of line but that could be changed to any "$Operators"
>
> our $Arithmetic = qr{\+|-|\*|\/|%};
> our $Operators = qr{
> <=|>=|==|!=|
> =>|->|<<|>>|<|>|!|~|
> &&|\|\||,|\^|\+\+|--|&|\||$Arithmetic
> }x;
>
> The ones that likely have a too high false positive rates
> are the negation "!" and bitwise "~".

Unary operators at the beginning of a line are perfectly fine,
it's the other ones that are the problem.
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