[PATCH] checkpatch: Allow DEFINE_PER_CPU definitions to exceed line length

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 16 2017 - 12:12:10 EST


Some of the definitions are very long and can't be split
into multiple lines because ctags is limited.

Exempt these lines from the line length checks.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++--
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2a8c6c3c1bdb..5fa0f5467d99 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2900,8 +2900,9 @@ sub process {
$line =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+\w+\s+$String$/) {
$msg_type = "";

- # EFI_GUID is another special case
- } elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/) {
+ # More special cases
+ } elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/ ||
+ $line =~ /^\+\s*(?:\w+)?\s*DEFINE_PER_CPU/) {
$msg_type = "";

# Otherwise set the alternate message types