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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fixes unnecessary return warning
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Bhakti Priya <bhaktipriya96@gmail.com>
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On Sat, 2016-01-30 at 12:23 +0530, Bhakti Priya wrote:
> I will be happy to extend checkpatch.pl. As suggested by you, I am
> trying to detect such blank lines in a line removal patch by checking
> if the line above the deleted line was a blank line and the line
> following the deleted line had a closing brace.
> Can you please guide me and let me know if I am headed in the right
> direction.

You have to track all the + and - lines that precede the
deleted line.

Good luck.