checkpatch: warn on unnecessary spaces before quoted newlines

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index cf4e44cf3c27..a4d74344d805 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1394,6 +1394,11 @@ sub process {
                         WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
                 }
 
+# check for spaces before a quoted newline
+                if ($rawline =~ /^.*\".*\s\\n/) {
+                        WARN("unnecessary whitespace before a quoted newline\n" . $herecurr);
+                }
+
 # check for adding lines without a newline.
                 if ($line =~ /^\+/ && defined $lines[$linenr] && $lines[$linenr] =~ /^\\ No newline at end of file/) {
                         WARN("adding a line without newline at end of file\n" . $herecurr);