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authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>2008-07-24 06:29:07 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-24 19:47:26 +0200
commitb8f96a31f38c8e9fc75f0a89c6815e7cbc402858 (patch)
treed68058c4329c6cb32255f905a2aac02a3bfac273 /scripts/checkpatch.pl
parentcheckpatch: possible modifiers are not being correctly matched (diff)
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checkpatch: macro complexity checks are meaningless in linker scripts
Exclude vmlinux.lds.h from the macro complexity checks. They will never apply sanely here. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 53ec3946670d..775f2b146aa1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1860,7 +1860,8 @@ sub process {
# multi-statement macros should be enclosed in a do while loop, grab the
# first statement and ensure its the whole macro if its not enclosed
# in a known good container
- if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
+ if ($realfile !~ m@/vmlinux.lds.h$@ &&
+ $line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
my $ln = $linenr;
my $cnt = $realcnt;
my ($off, $dstat, $dcond, $rest);