RE: checkpatch.pl report about "Missing blank line after declarations" in a structure definition

From: Dotan Barak
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 10:14:25 EST


Hi Joe.

The patch that you mentioned solved most of the issues, thanks!

However, there is still one more warning of this type within a struct declaration.

# ./checkpatch.pl --file --no-tree ../include/linux/mlx5/driver.h

WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
#508: FILE: ../include/linux/mlx5/driver.h:508:
+ struct mlx5_uuar_info uuari;
+ MLX5_DECLARE_DOORBELL_LOCK(cq_uar_lock);


<snip start>
struct mlx5_priv {
char name[MLX5_MAX_NAME_LEN];
struct mlx5_eq_table eq_table;
struct mlx5_uuar_info uuari;
MLX5_DECLARE_DOORBELL_LOCK(cq_uar_lock);

/* pages stuff */
struct workqueue_struct *pg_wq;
struct rb_root page_root;
int fw_pages;
int reg_pages;
struct list_head free_list;

<snip end>


Thanks
Dotan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Perches [mailto:joe@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 4:36 PM
> To: Dotan Barak
> Cc: linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: checkpatch.pl report about "Missing blank line after
> declarations" in a structure definition
>
> On Mon, 2014-08-04 at 11:20 +0000, Dotan Barak wrote:
> > Hi Joe.
> >
> > Thanks for fixing the issue that I reported about.
> >
> > It seems that even after your fix, there is still a false warning of "Missing
> blank line after declarations".
> >
> > I executed checkpatch.pl on a header file that exists in the Linux tree:
> > # ./checkpatch.pl --file --no-tree ../include/linux/mlx5/cq.h
> >
> > And got the following warning:
> >
> > WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
> > #49: FILE: ../include/linux/mlx5/cq.h:49:
> > + int irqn;
> > + void (*comp) (struct mlx5_core_cq *);
> []
> > As you can see, this is a structure definition and IMHO the warning above is
> false.
>
> The version in Linus' tree has a defect where this test doesn't recognize
> function pointer declarations.
>
> This is fixed in -next since June, but it takes awhile to get into Linus' tree.
>
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/6/6/426
>

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