linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/5] checkpatch: fix false errors due to macro concatenation

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Date:	Thu, 01 Oct 2009 07:20:04 -0700
From:	Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
To:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] checkpatch: fix false errors due to macro
 concatenation

On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 18:46 +0100, Andy Whitcroft wrote:

> Ok, just removing these characters in the conversion changes the
> relative length of the converted form and breaks position reporting for
> other checks, for instance if I stupidly convert the ## to # so its
> still invalid we then get this:
> 
> +	entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data; \
> 
> It is probabally more correct to include this <ident> ## <ident> form in
> the definition of an identifier.  I've respun this patch to do just that
> and it looks like its working as we would hope.

It could just become "__" something that would match on an ident and
keep the spacing the same.

Daniel

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