From d560a5f8a46e98c2f83c5fe699e1d6f6393a14cf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2016 14:04:31 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: skip long lines that use an EFI_GUID macro
These are also possible single line uses that exceed the generic maximum
line length (typically 80 columns)
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/32a6a85fbd6161f1bb55ce176a464e44591afc5b.1468368420.git.joe@perches.com
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>
---
scripts/checkpatch.pl | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 24a08363995a..a4476b61e93f 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2763,6 +2763,10 @@ sub process {
$line =~ /^\+\s*#\s*define\s+\w+\s+$String$/) {
$msg_type = "";
+ # EFI_GUID is another special case
+ } elsif ($line =~ /^\+.*\bEFI_GUID\s*\(/) {
+ $msg_type = "";
+
# Otherwise set the alternate message types
# a comment starts before $max_line_length