checkpatch: macro complexity checks are meaningless in linker scripts

Exclude vmlinux.lds.h from the macro complexity checks.  They will never
apply sanely here.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 53ec3946670d66d889eb8c840dd2aa188c5412a0..775f2b146aa11a7326c431ea2fd6d6bcb8250ca2 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1860,7 +1860,8 @@ sub process {
 # multi-statement macros should be enclosed in a do while loop, grab the
 # first statement and ensure its the whole macro if its not enclosed
 # in a known good container
-               if ($line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
+               if ($realfile !~ m@/vmlinux.lds.h$@ &&
+                   $line =~ /^.\s*\#\s*define\s*$Ident(\()?/) {
                        my $ln = $linenr;
                        my $cnt = $realcnt;
                        my ($off, $dstat, $dcond, $rest);