Commit 90ad30e5 authored by Joe Perches's avatar Joe Perches Committed by Linus Torvalds

checkpatch: add test for consecutive string fragments

Emit a warning when single line string coalescing occurs.

Code that uses compiler string concatenation on a single line like:

    printk("foo" "bar");

is generally better to read concatenated like:

    printk("foobar");
Signed-off-by: default avatarJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0ab90191
......@@ -4464,6 +4464,12 @@ sub process {
"Concatenated strings should use spaces between elements\n" . $herecurr);
}
# uncoalesced string fragments
if ($line =~ /"X*"\s*"/) {
WARN("STRING_FRAGMENTS",
"Consecutive strings are generally better as a single string\n" . $herecurr);
}
# warn about #if 0
if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*if\s+0\b/) {
CHK("REDUNDANT_CODE",
......
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