From: joe@perches.com (Joe Perches) Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2017 09:12:00 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: Allow DEFINE_PER_CPU definitions to exceed line length In-Reply-To: <20171016152839.14964-3-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <20171016152839.14964-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> <20171016152839.14964-3-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: <1508170320.6530.15.camel@perches.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Some of the definitions are very long and can't be split into multiple lines because ctags is limited. Exempt these lines from the line length checks. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 2a8c6c3c1bdb..5fa0f5467d99 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -2900,8 +2900,9 @@ sub process { $line =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+\w+\s+$String$/) { $msg_type = ""; - # EFI_GUID is another special case - } elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/) { + # More special cases + } elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/ || + $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:\w+)?\s*DEFINE_PER_CPU/) { $msg_type = ""; # Otherwise set the alternate message types