The patch titled Subject: checkpatch: extend line continuation test has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was checkpatch-extend-line-continuation-test.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree ------------------------------------------------------ From: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: checkpatch: extend line continuation test Preprocessor directives and asm statements should be allowed to have a line continuation. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@xxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-extend-line-continuation-test scripts/checkpatch.pl --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-extend-line-continuation-test +++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -3009,10 +3009,12 @@ sub process { } } -# check for line continuations outside of #defines +# check for line continuations outside of #defines, preprocessor #, and asm } else { if ($prevline !~ /^..*\\$/ && + $line !~ /^\+\s*\#.*\\$/ && # preprocessor + $line !~ /^\+.*\b(__asm__|asm)\b.*\\$/ && # asm $line =~ /^\+.*\\$/) { WARN("LINE_CONTINUATIONS", "Avoid unnecessary line continuations\n" . $herecurr); _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from joe@xxxxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.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