From f4c014c0dede10cc0a8463e748892e738e190699 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:29:01 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow printk strings to exceed 80 characters to
maintain their searchability
Allow printk strings to break the 80 character width limits, thus keeping
them complete and searchable.
Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +++-
1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 89177c349f93..614999f29aa0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1138,7 +1138,9 @@ sub process {
}
#80 column limit
if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ &&
- $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ && $length > 80)
+ $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ &&
+ $line !~ /^\+\s*printk\s*\(\s*(?:KERN_\S+\s*)?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ &&
+ $length > 80)
{
WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
}
--
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