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authorJoe Perches <joe@perches.com>2013-07-03 15:05:27 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-03 16:07:44 -0700
commit3cc4b1c3f0d283f4bb8d49059bd6df8e7af7558b (patch)
tree7ac539f3e668317e1fa2f9f2e283d80eecc7333f /scripts
parent9d7a34a5135d29b840d074ba8fbb9c2fac63e508 (diff)
downloadlinux-3cc4b1c3f0d283f4bb8d49059bd6df8e7af7558b.tar.bz2
checkpatch: reduce false positive rate of "complex macros"
Allow "#define foo struct.member" without bleating a warning. This also allows "#define foo bar.baz->qux" and so on. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checkpatch.pl2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index f4e247b277de..93b8e6693cb1 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3041,7 +3041,7 @@ sub process {
if ($dstat ne '' &&
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ && # 10, // foo(),
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ && # foo();
- $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Ident|$Constant)$/ && # 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo
+ $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Lval|$Constant)$/ && # 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo // foo->bar // foo.bar->baz
$dstat !~ /^'X'$/ && # character constants
$dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
$dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ && # .foo =