The quilt patch titled
Subject: scripts: checkpatch: allow "case" macros
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
scripts-checkpatch-allow-case-macros.patch
This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-nonmm-stable branch
of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm
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From: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx>
Subject: scripts: checkpatch: allow "case" macros
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2022 15:43:34 +0200
Do not report errors like below:
./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath10k/wmi.h
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
+#define C2S(x) case x: return #x
since many "case ..." macros are already used by some in-kernel drivers.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221027134334.164301-1-stf_xl@xxxxx
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <stf_xl@xxxxx>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~scripts-checkpatch-allow-case-macros
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5918,6 +5918,7 @@ sub process {
$dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
$dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ && # .foo =
$dstat !~ /^(?:\#\s*$Ident|\#\s*$Constant)\s*$/ && # stringification #foo
+ $dstat !~ /^case\b/ && # case ...
$dstat !~ /^do\s*$Constant\s*while\s*$Constant;?$/ && # do {...} while (...); // do {...} while (...)
$dstat !~ /^while\s*$Constant\s*$Constant\s*$/ && # while (...) {...}
$dstat !~ /^for\s*$Constant$/ && # for (...)
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from stf_xl@xxxxx are
