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)
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

index e3bfcbe8a520b63639b04115bf148fb4ddd144eb..a3b9782441f9e49a3a3522107e40dc3ffee913b8 100755 (executable)
@@ -1924,6 +1924,12 @@ sub process {
                        my $pre_ctx = "$1$2";
 
                        my ($level, @ctx) = ctx_statement_level($linenr, $realcnt, 0);
+
+                       if ($line =~ /^\+\t{6,}/) {
+                               WARN("DEEP_INDENTATION",
+                                    "Too many leading tabs - consider code refactoring\n" . $herecurr);
+                       }
+
                        my $ctx_cnt = $realcnt - $#ctx - 1;
                        my $ctx = join("\n", @ctx);