linux-kernel - [PATCH 20/23] checkpatch: macro complexity checks are meaningless in linker scripts

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Message-Id: <1213272362-19457-21-git-send-email-apw@shadowen.org>
Date:	Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:05:59 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Joel Schopp <jschopp@...tin.ibm.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...dowen.org>
Subject: [PATCH 20/23] 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@...dowen.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    3 ++-
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 53ec394..775f2b1 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 ($realfile !~ m@...linux.lds.h$@ &&
+		    $line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
 			my $ln = $linenr;
 			my $cnt = $realcnt;
 			my ($off, $dstat, $dcond, $rest);
-- 
1.5.6.rc0.140.ga9675

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