The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: handle string concatenation in simple #defines has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-handle-string-concatenation-in-simple-defines.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ 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 @@ -2894,6 +2894,12 @@ 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| _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from apw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx are origin.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