checkpatch: format strings should not have brackets in macros
authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:04:38 +0000 (17:04 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:17:48 +0000 (07:17 -0700)
We should not recommend braces for the following:

    #define pr_fmt(fmt)    "%s: " fmt, __func__

allow things with double quotes round them to avoid this check.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index e3c6b49..57df906 100755 (executable)
@@ -2288,7 +2288,8 @@ sub process {
                                DECLARE_PER_CPU|
                                DEFINE_PER_CPU|
                                __typeof__\(|
-                               \.$Ident\s*=\s*
+                               \.$Ident\s*=\s*|
+                               ^\"|\"$
                        }x;
                        #print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat>\n";
                        if ($rest ne '') {