The patch titled checkpatch: fix false errors due to macro concatenation has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-fix-false-errors-due-to-macro-concatenation.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 *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: checkpatch: fix false errors due to macro concatenation From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> The macro concatenation (##) sequence can cause false errors when checking macro's. Checkpatch doesn't currently know about the operator. For example this line, + entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data; \ is correct but it produces the following error, ERROR: need consistent spacing around '*' (ctx:WxB) + entry = (struct ftrace_raw_##call *)raw_data;\ ^ The line above doesn't have any spacing problems, and if you remove the macro concatenation sequence checkpatch doesn't give any errors. Extend identifier handling to include ## concatenation within the definition of an identifier. Reported-by: Daniel Walker <dwalker@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-false-errors-due-to-macro-concatenation scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-fix-false-errors-due-to-macro-concatenation +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -130,7 +130,10 @@ if ($tree) { my $emitted_corrupt = 0; -our $Ident = qr{[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*}; +our $Ident = qr{ + [A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]* + (?:\s*\#\#\s*[A-Za-z_][A-Za-z\d_]*)* + }x; our $Storage = qr{extern|static|asmlinkage}; our $Sparse = qr{ __user| _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are checkpatch-possible-types-prevent-illegal-modifiers-being-added.patch checkpatch-correctly-stop-scanning-at-the-bottom-of-a-hunk.patch checkpatch-update-copyright-dates.patch checkpatch-fix-false-errors-due-to-macro-concatenation.patch checkpatch-fix-__attribute__-matching.patch checkpatch-fix-false-export_symbol-warning.patch checkpatch-version-030.patch nodemask-make-nodemask_alloc-more-general.patch hugetlb-rework-hstate_next_node_-functions.patch hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions.patch hugetlb-add-nodemask-arg-to-huge-page-alloc-free-and-surplus-adjust-functions-fix.patch hugetlb-factor-init_nodemask_of_node.patch hugetlb-derive-huge-pages-nodes-allowed-from-task-mempolicy.patch hugetlb-add-generic-definition-of-numa_no_node.patch hugetlb-add-per-node-hstate-attributes.patch hugetlb-update-hugetlb-documentation-for-numa-controls.patch hugetlb-use-only-nodes-with-memory-for-huge-pages.patch mm-clear-node-in-n_high_memory-and-stop-kswapd-when-all-memory-is-offlined.patch hugetlb-handle-memory-hot-plug-events.patch hugetlb-offload-per-node-attribute-registrations.patch mm-add-gfp-flags-for-nodemask_alloc-slab-allocations.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