+ checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts.patch added to -mm tree

+ checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts.patch added to -mm tree

[akpm]

The patch titled
     Subject: checkpatch: don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts
has been added to the -mm tree.  Its filename is
     checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts.patch

This patch should soon appear at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts.patch
and later at
    https://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts.patch

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From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Subject: checkpatch: don't warn about colon termination in linker scripts

This check erroneously flags cases like the one in my recent printk
enumeration patch[0], where the spaces are syntactic, and `section:' vs. 
`section :' is syntactically important:

    ERROR: space prohibited before that ':' (ctx:WxW)
    #258: FILE: include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h:314:
    +       .printk_fmts : AT(ADDR(.printk_fmts) - LOAD_OFFSET) {

0: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/1375749/

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/YBwhqsc2TIVeid3t@chrisdown.name
Signed-off-by: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -5053,7 +5053,7 @@ sub process {
 				# A colon needs no spaces before when it is
 				# terminating a case value or a label.
 				} elsif ($opv eq ':C' || $opv eq ':L') {
-					if ($ctx =~ /Wx./) {
+					if ($ctx =~ /Wx./ and $realfile !~ m@.*\.lds\.h$@) {
 						if (ERROR("SPACING",
 							  "space prohibited before that '$op' $at\n" . $hereptr)) {
 							$good = rtrim($fix_elements[$n]) . trim($fix_elements[$n + 1]);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from chris@chrisdown.name are

checkpatch-dont-warn-about-colon-termination-in-linker-scripts.patch