checkpatch: allow printk strings to exceed 80 characters to maintain their searchability
authorAndy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:29:01 +0000 (21:29 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:47:25 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
Allow printk strings to break the 80 character width limits, thus keeping
them complete and searchable.

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>
scripts/checkpatch.pl

index 89177c349f9396b1781f7e05b137229ecda4e470..614999f29aa04846a5588e3f74537bb3f5104807 100755 (executable)
@@ -1138,7 +1138,9 @@ sub process {
                }
 #80 column limit
                if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ &&
-                   $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ && $length > 80)
+                   $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ &&
+                   $line !~ /^\+\s*printk\s*\(\s*(?:KERN_\S+\s*)?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ &&
+                   $length > 80)
                {
                        WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
                }