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>

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index e3c6b49..57df906 100755 (executable)
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2288,7 +2288,8 @@ sub process {
                                DECLARE_PER_CPU|
                                DEFINE_PER_CPU|
                                __typeof__\(|
                                DECLARE_PER_CPU|
                                DEFINE_PER_CPU|
                                __typeof__\(|

-                               \.$Ident\s*=\s*
+                               \.$Ident\s*=\s*|
+                               ^\"|\"$

                        }x;
                        #print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat>\n";
                        if ($rest ne '') {
                        }x;
                        #print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat>\n";
                        if ($rest ne '') {