[Linux-kernel-mentees] [PATCH v5] checkpatch: add new exception to repeated word check

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Sun Oct 18 07:11:20 UTC 2020


On Sun, 2020-10-18 at 12:10 +0530, Dwaipayan Ray wrote:
> print index(" \t.,;?!", '');
> 
> It output 0 in my case. So last words on a line seems to work.
> I don't know if this changes with the perl version though.
> 
> So given this, will it be necessary to change end_char to ' ' ?
> or perhaps change both start_char and end_char to a ' ' to maintain
> uniformity?

It seems it's fine even back to perl 5.6, so it's fine as is.

cheers, Joe




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