checkpatch: macro complexity checks are meaningless in linker scripts
Exclude vmlinux.lds.h from the macro complexity checks. They will never
apply sanely here.
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>
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 53ec394..775f2b1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1860,7 +1860,8 @@
# multi-statement macros should be enclosed in a do while loop, grab the
# first statement and ensure its the whole macro if its not enclosed
# in a known good container
- if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
+ if ($realfile !~ m@/vmlinux.lds.h$@ &&
+ $line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
my $ln = $linenr;
my $cnt = $realcnt;
my ($off, $dstat, $dcond, $rest);