[PATCH] checkpatch: Allow DEFINE_PER_CPU definitions to exceed line length

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Mon Oct 16 09:12:00 PDT 2017


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 <joe at perches.com>
---
 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



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