Re: [PATCH v4] checkpatch: add fix option for ASSIGNMENT_CONTINUATIONS

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2020-11-21 at 17:34 +0530, Aditya Srivastava wrote:
> Currently, checkpatch warns us if an assignment operator is placed
> at the start of a line and not at the end of previous line.

Right, thanks.

Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>

> 
> E.g., running checkpatch on commit 8195b1396ec8 ("hv_netvsc: fix
> deadlock on hotplug") reports:
> 
> CHECK: Assignment operator '=' should be on the previous line
> +	struct netvsc_device *nvdev
> +		= container_of(w, struct netvsc_device, subchan_work);
> 
> Provide a simple fix by appending assignment operator to the previous
> line and removing from the current line, if both the lines are additions
> (ie start with '+')
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aditya Srivastava <yashsri421@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> add check if both the lines are additions (ie start with '+')
> 
> Changes in v3:
> quote $operator; test with division assignment operator ('/=')
> 
> Changes in v4:
> fix incorrect use of quote
> 
>  scripts/checkpatch.pl | 10 ++++++++--
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> index 2749f32dffe9..d4c8d42cb13e 100755
> --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
> @@ -3533,8 +3533,14 @@ sub process {
>  
> 
>  # check for assignments on the start of a line
>  		if ($sline =~ /^\+\s+($Assignment)[^=]/) {
> -			CHK("ASSIGNMENT_CONTINUATIONS",
> -			    "Assignment operator '$1' should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev);
> +			my $operator = $1;
> +			if (CHK("ASSIGNMENT_CONTINUATIONS",
> +				"Assignment operator '$1' should be on the previous line\n" . $hereprev) &&
> +			    $fix && $prevrawline =~ /^\+/) {
> +				# add assignment operator to the previous line, remove from current line
> +				$fixed[$fixlinenr - 1] .= " $operator";
> +				$fixed[$fixlinenr] =~ s/\Q$operator\E\s*//;
> +			}
>  		}
>  
> 
>  # check for && or || at the start of a line