The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: don't complain about BIT macro in uapi has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-dont-complain-about-bit-macro-in-uapi.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-complain-about-bit-macro-in-uapi.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-complain-about-bit-macro-in-uapi.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: don't complain about BIT macro in uapi BIT macro cannot be exported to UAPI, don't complain about it. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1468707033-16173-1-git-send-email-tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Tomas Winkler <tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-complain-about-bit-macro-in-uapi scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-complain-about-bit-macro-in-uapi +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5733,8 +5733,9 @@ sub process { } } -# check for #defines like: 1 << <digit> that could be BIT(digit) - if ($line =~ /#\s*define\s+\w+\s+\(?\s*1\s*([ulUL]*)\s*\<\<\s*(?:\d+|$Ident)\s*\)?/) { +# check for #defines like: 1 << <digit> that could be BIT(digit), it is not exported to uapi + if ($realfile !~ m@^include/uapi/@ && + $line =~ /#\s*define\s+\w+\s+\(?\s*1\s*([ulUL]*)\s*\<\<\s*(?:\d+|$Ident)\s*\)?/) { my $ull = ""; $ull = "_ULL" if (defined($1) && $1 =~ /ll/i); if (CHK("BIT_MACRO", _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from tomas.winkler@xxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-dont-complain-about-bit-macro-in-uapi.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html