The patch titled
Subject: checkpatch: handle string concatenation in simple #defines
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
checkpatch-handle-string-concatenation-in-simple-defines.patch
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From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: checkpatch: handle string concatenation in simple #defines
Adjacent strings indicate concatentation, therefore look at identifiers
directly adjacent to literal strings as strings too. This allows us to
better detect the form below and accept it as a simple constant:
#define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 6 ++++++
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-handle-string-concatenation-in-simple-defines scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-handle-string-concatenation-in-simple-defines
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2889,6 +2889,12 @@ sub process {
{
}
+ # Flatten any obvious string concatentation.
+ while ($dstat =~ s/("X*")\s*$Ident/$1/ ||
+ $dstat =~ s/$Ident\s*("X*")/$1/)
+ {
+ }
+
my $exceptions = qr{
$Declare|
module_param_named|
_
Subject: Subject: checkpatch: handle string concatenation in simple #defines
Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are
checkpatchpl-be-silent-when-q-and-ignore-is-given.patch
checkpatch-catch-usage-when-not-at-the-beginning-of-defination.patch
checkpatch-allow-simple-character-constants-in-defines.patch
checkpatch-handle-string-concatenation-in-simple-defines.patch
checkpatch-high-precidence-operators-do-not-require-additional-parentheses-in-defines.patch
checkpatch-add-to-type-extensions.patch
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