| Message ID | YB6UsjCOy1qrrlSD@chrisdown.name (mailing list archive) |
|---|---|
| State | New, archived |
| Headers | show |
| Series | [RESEND] checkpatch: Don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts | expand |
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 4f8494527139..3bcffc5574ae 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -5046,7 +5046,7 @@ sub process { # A colon needs no spaces before when it is # terminating a case value or a label. } elsif ($opv eq ':C' || $opv eq ':L') { - if ($ctx =~ /Wx./) { + if ($ctx =~ /Wx./ and $realfile !~ m@.*\.lds\.h$@) { if (ERROR("SPACING", "space prohibited before that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) { $good = rtrim($fix_elements[$n]) . trim($fix_elements[$n + 1]);
This check erroneously flags cases like the one in my recent printk enumeration patch[0], where the spaces are syntactic, and `section:' vs. `section :' is syntactically important: ERROR: space prohibited before that ':' (ctx:WxW) #258: FILE: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:314: + .printk_fmts : AT(ADDR(.printk_fmts) - LOAD_OFFSET) { 0: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1375749/ Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)