[PATCH v2] checkpatch: Improve warning message for "needless if" case

From: Fabio Estevam
Date: Tue Oct 21 2014 - 12:52:48 EST


Break the sentence so that it looks better:

WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required

Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Changes since v1:
- Use 'and' instead of '.'

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d94f5d8..99653bb 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4446,7 +4446,7 @@ sub process {
my $expr = '\s*\(\s*' . quotemeta($1) . '\s*\)\s*;';
if ($line =~ /\b(kfree|usb_free_urb|debugfs_remove(?:_recursive)?)$expr/) {
WARN('NEEDLESS_IF',
- "$1(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
+ "$1(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
}
}

--
1.9.1

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