Re: [Proposal] end of file checks by checkpatch.pl

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2019-05-10 at 00:27 +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> 
> Does it make sense to check the following
> by checkpatch.pl ?
> 
> 
> [1] blank line at end of file


> [2] no new line at end of file

I'm pretty sure checkpatch does one this already.
(around line 3175)

# check for adding lines without a newline.
		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && defined $lines[$linenr] && $lines[$linenr] =~ /^\\ No newline at end of file/) {
 			WARN("MISSING_EOF_NEWLINE",
 			     "adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr);
 		}


> When I apply a patch,
> I sometimes see the following warning from 'git am'.
> 
> 
> Applying: kunit: test: add string_stream a std::stream like string builder
> .git/rebase-apply/patch:223: new blank line at EOF.
> +
> 
> 
> I just thought it could be checked
> before the patch submission.

perhaps:
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 1c421ac42b07..ceb32c584ee5 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3356,6 +3356,12 @@ sub process {
 			$last_blank_line = $linenr;
 		}
 
+# check the last line isn't blank
+		if ($linenr >= $#rawlines && $line =~ /^\+\s*$/) {
+			WARN("LINE_SPACING",
+			     "Avoid blank lines at EOF\n" . $herecurr);
+		}
+
 # check for missing blank lines after declarations
 		if ($sline =~ /^\+\s+\S/ &&			#Not at char 1
 			# actual declarations