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authorFabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com>2014-12-03 18:54:50 +1100
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>2014-12-03 18:54:50 +1100
commit4c9fb6b38da0fe46391d6ac98402226330346463 (patch)
tree8d0c7e1f0b3e0bd589136269e96bd47ad7721ec5 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parent8719572e70e87ff63f0dc44480ccfefd2d69143e (diff)
checkpatch: improve warning message for "needless if" case
Add an 'and' to the sentence so that it looks better: WARNING: debugfs_remove(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required Signed-off-by: Fabio Estevam <fabio.estevam@freescale.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts/checkpatch.pl')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d94f5d879fb1..10ad5ab571dc 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -4446,7 +4446,7 @@ sub process {
my $expr = '\s*\(\s*' . quotemeta($1) . '\s*\)\s*;';
if ($line =~ /\b(kfree|usb_free_urb|debugfs_remove(?:_recursive)?)$expr/) {
WARN('NEEDLESS_IF',
- "$1(NULL) is safe this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
+ "$1(NULL) is safe and this check is probably not required\n" . $hereprev);
}
}