Re: [PATCH v2] checkpatch: add a fixer for missing newline at eof

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 07:25 -0700, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> Remove the trailing error message from the fixed lines
> 
> Signed-off-by: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> v2: fix whitespace

Thanks Tom.  Andrew can you pick this up please?

> ---
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++--
>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index fab38b493cef..f9e78a5385ad 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3393,8 +3393,11 @@ sub process {
>  
>  # 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);
> +			if (WARN("MISSING_EOF_NEWLINE",
> +			         "adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr) &&
> +			    $fix) {
> +				fix_delete_line($fixlinenr+1, "No newline at end of file");
> +			}
>  		}
>  
>  # check we are in a valid source file C or perl if not then ignore this hunk