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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2015-04-16 12:44:30 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-04-17 09:03:57 -0400
commit29a3c46673a5e3ee22feaba7020a280486c78f0a (patch)
tree998900ac47d2f2603c056db112e09551cc5da21f /scripts
parent2a076f40d8c9be95bee7bcf18436655e1140447f (diff)
downloadlinux-29a3c46673a5e3ee22feaba7020a280486c78f0a.tar.gz
checkpatch: add #define foo "string" long line exception
There are #defines with long string constants like:
	#define foo "some really long string > 80 columns"
Add a long line exception for them.

Miscellanea:

Use the $String variable for slightly better readability

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Reported-by: Madalin-Cristian Bucur <madalin.bucur@freescale.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl5
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 9a8b2bd14dc2..36d7e704af8f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2513,8 +2513,9 @@ sub process {
 #line length limit
 		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ &&
 		    $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ &&
-		    !($line =~ /^\+\s*$logFunctions\s*\(\s*(?:(KERN_\S+\s*|[^"]*))?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ ||
-		    $line =~ /^\+\s*"[^"]*"\s*(?:\s*|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/) &&
+		    !($line =~ /^\+\s*$logFunctions\s*\(\s*(?:(KERN_\S+\s*|[^"]*))?$String\s*(?:|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ ||
+		      $line =~ /^\+\s*$String\s*(?:\s*|,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ ||
+		      $line =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+\w+\s+$String$/) &&
 		    $length > $max_line_length)
 		{
 			WARN("LONG_LINE",