checkpatch: extend line continuation test
Preprocessor directives and asm statements should be allowed to have a
line continuation.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Tested-by: Jingoo Han <jg1.han@samsung.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 6fa1677..3e9fee6 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3009,10 +3009,12 @@
}
}
-# 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);