linux-kernel - [PATCH 4/7] checkpatch: fix false errors due to macro concatenation

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Date:	Fri, 16 Oct 2009 19:39:29 +0100
From:	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
Subject: [PATCH 4/7] checkpatch: fix false errors due to macro concatenation

The macro concatenation (##) sequence can cause false errors when checking
macro's. Checkpatch doesn't currently know about the operator.

For example this line,

+ 	entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data;                   \

is correct but it produces the following error,

ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB)
+       entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data;\
                                          ^

The line above doesn't have any spacing problems, and if you remove the
macro concatenation sequence checkpatch doesn't give any errors.

Extend identifier handling to include ## concatenation within the
definition of an identifier.

Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    5 ++++-
 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 05b10d6..cb2dac3 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -130,7 +130,10 @@ if ($tree) {
 
 my $emitted_corrupt = 0;
 
-our $Ident       = qr{[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*};
+our $Ident	= qr{
+			[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*
+			(?:\s*\#\#\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)*
+		}x;
 our $Storage	= qr{extern|static|asmlinkage};
 our $Sparse	= qr{
 			__user|
-- 
1.6.3.3

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