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checkpatch: if should not continue a preceeding brace
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We should not be continuing a braced section with an if, for example:

	if (...) {
	} if (...) {
	}

Detect this and suggest adding a newline.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andy Whitcroft authored and Linus Torvalds committed Jan 16, 2009
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Expand Up @@ -2108,6 +2108,11 @@ sub process {
ERROR("trailing statements should be on next line\n" . $herecurr);
}
}
# if should not continue a brace
if ($line =~ /}\s*if\b/) {
ERROR("trailing statements should be on next line\n" .
$herecurr);
}
# case and default should not have general statements after them
if ($line =~ /^.\s*(?:case\s*.*|default\s*):/g &&
$line !~ /\G(?:
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