From ea71a0a019f913bdf506103bd90140d93a2b83f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2009 17:04:38 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: format strings should not have brackets in macros

We should not recommend braces for the following:

    #define pr_fmt(fmt)    "%s: " fmt, __func__

allow things with double quotes round them to avoid this check.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3c6b4922fff..57df90699219 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2288,7 +2288,8 @@ sub process {
 				DECLARE_PER_CPU|
 				DEFINE_PER_CPU|
 				__typeof__\(|
-				\.$Ident\s*=\s*
+				\.$Ident\s*=\s*|
+				^\"|\"$
 			}x;
 			#print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat>\n";
 			if ($rest ne '') {