Preprocessor directives and asm statements should be
allowed to have a line continuation.
Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 +++-
1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index d2d5ba1..019f9be 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -3006,10 +3006,12 @@ sub process {
}
}
-# check for line continuations outside of #defines
+# check for line continuations outside of #defines, preprocessor #, and asm
} else {
if ($prevline !~ /^..*\\$/ &&
+ $line !~ /^\+\s*\#*.*\\$/ && # preprocessor
+ $line !~ /^\+.*\b(__asm__|asm)\b.*\\$/ && # asm
$line =~ /^\+.*\\$/) {
WARN("LINE_CONTINUATIONS",
"Avoid unnecessary line continuations\n" .
$herecurr);
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