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Message-ID: <5628D56E.9080206@suse.com>
Date:	Thu, 22 Oct 2015 14:24:14 +0200
From:	Michal Marek <mmarek@...e.com>
To:	Prarit Bhargava <prarit@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-kbuild@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, rds-devel@....oracle.com,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 9/9] treewide: Remove newlines inside DEFINE_PER_CPU()
 macros

On 2015-10-22 14:14, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> On 10/22/2015 08:06 AM, Michal Marek wrote:
>> It used to require a closing parenthesis, so it would not match the
>> multiline macro invocations at all. Now it matches them, but ctags
>> correctly warns that the empty string is probably not what we intended
>> to match.
> 
> It seems wrong to change kernel code, not for a bug, but for a userspace search.

The bug is that the code cannot be indexed using ctags or etags.

Michal

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