The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: improve quoted string and line continuation test has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test.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: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: improve quoted string and line continuation test Given this patch context, +#define EFI_ST_DISK_IMG { \ + 0x00000240, "\xbe\x5b\x7c\xac\x22\xc0\x74\x0b" /* .[|.".t. */ \ + } the current code misreports a quoted string line continuation defect as there is a single quote in comment. The 'raw' line should not be tested for quote count, the comment substituted line should be instead. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/13f2735df10c33ca846e26f42f5cce6618157200.1513698599.git.joe@xxxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Reported-by: Heinrich Schuchardt <xypron.glpk@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5312,7 +5312,7 @@ sub process { } # check for line continuations in quoted strings with odd counts of " - if ($rawline =~ /\\$/ && $rawline =~ tr/"/"/ % 2) { + if ($rawline =~ /\\$/ && $sline =~ tr/"/"/ % 2) { WARN("LINE_CONTINUATIONS", "Avoid line continuations in quoted strings\n" . $herecurr); } _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-ignore-some-octal-permissions-of-0.patch checkpatch-improve-quoted-string-and-line-continuation-test.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