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@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.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 95ba30a..01a6598 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2894,6 +2894,12 @@
{
}
+ # 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|
