On Mon, Oct 16, 2017 at 09:12:00AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> 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]>
It might make sense to point at commit:
25528213fe9f75f4 ("tags: Fix DEFINE_PER_CPU expansions")
... for the gory details, but either way:
Acked-by: Mark Rutland <[email protected]>
Thanks,
Mark.
> ---
> 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
