Re: [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Oct 17 2020 - 12:33:23 EST


On Sat, 2020-10-17 at 21:57 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> Recently, commit 4f6ad8aa1eac ("checkpatch: move repeated word test")
> moved the repeated word test to check for more file types. But after
> this, if checkpatch.pl is run on MAINTAINERS, it generates several
> new warnings of the type:

NAK.

Slow down and test before you send more patch versions.

> + next if (index(" \t.,;?!", $end_char) == -1);

what does this do?