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>

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

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 '') {