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 <[email protected]> --- 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

