The patch titled checkpatch: add <foo>_<level> and MODULE_<BAR> to 80 column exceptions has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is checkpatch-add-foo_level-and-module_bar-to-80-column-exceptions.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: add <foo>_<level> and MODULE_<BAR> to 80 column exceptions From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Many module or file local logging functions use specific prefixes other than pr|dev|netdev. Allow all forms like foo_printk and foo_err to be longer than 80 columns. Also allow MODULE_<BAR> declarations to be longer than 80 columns. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-foo_level-and-module_bar-to-80-column-exceptions scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-add-foo_level-and-module_bar-to-80-column-exceptions +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -210,10 +210,10 @@ our $typeTypedefs = qr{(?x: our $logFunctions = qr{(?x: printk| - pr_(debug|dbg|vdbg|devel|info|warning|err|notice|alert|crit|emerg|cont)| - (dev|netdev|netif)_(printk|dbg|vdbg|info|warn|err|notice|alert|crit|emerg|WARN)| + [a-z]+_(emerg|alert|crit|err|warning|warn|notice|info|debug|dbg|vdbg|devel|cont|WARN)| WARN| - panic + panic| + MODULE_[A-Z_]+ )}; our @typeList = ( _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are linux-next.patch checkpatch-add-check-for-line-continuations-in-quoted-strings.patch checkpatch-add-foo_level-and-module_bar-to-80-column-exceptions.patch checkpatch-fix-defect-in-printkkern_level-80-column-exceptions.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