Re: checkpatch problem

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2010-09-23 at 19:54 +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Exactly right.  Andy has a version in his testing directory
> > that fixes this #define run-on block and speeds up checkpatch
> > runtime rather a lot for certain files like .h files that have
> > nothing but #defines.
> > Try applying my patch to this newer version:
> > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/apw/checkpatch/checkpatch.pl-testing
> 
> It still doesn't work.  In fact, I'm seeing more "Logging function has
> unnecessary whitespace before a newline" warnings, such as on this:
> 
> 		printk(KERN_ERR
> 		       "BUG: CPU#%d started up but did not get a callout!\n",
> 		       cpu);

Yes, it's completely borked.

ctx_statement_block returns code beyond the current
statement terminating ";".

Andy may be able to do something about it or know
about some appropriate knob to twist.

I don't really want to learn too much about
checkpatch internals.  Sorry.

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