From b9df76ac76da351cd4f6ba52369e9a64e9ab686d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:02:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow simple character constants in #defines
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>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 061c28e7bcfa2..95ba30a24dcf0 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2911,6 +2911,7 @@ sub process {
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ && # 10, // foo(),
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ && # foo();
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/ && # 10 // foo()
+ $dstat !~ /^'X'$/ && # character constants
$dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
$dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ && # .foo =
$dstat !~ /^do\s*$Constant\s*while\s*$Constant;?$/ && # do {...} while (...); // do {...} while (...)
--
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