A simple search over the kernel souce displays a number of correctly
defined multiline macro, which generally are used as an array element
initializer:
% find ../linux -type f | xargs grep -B1 -H '^[:space]*\[.*\\$'
However checkpatch.pl unexpectedly complains about all these macro
definitions:
% ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --types COMPLEX_MACRO -f include/linux/perf/arm_pmu.h
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
+#define PERF_MAP_ALL_UNSUPPORTED					\
+	 [0 ... PERF_COUNT_HW_MAX - 1] = HW_OP_UNSUPPORTED
The change intends to fix this type of false positives by flattening
only array members and skipping array element designators.
Signed-off-by: Vladimir Zapolskiy <vz@mleia.com>
Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
                        # Flatten any parentheses and braces
                        while ($dstat =~ s/\([^\(\)]*\)/1/ ||
                               $dstat =~ s/\{[^\{\}]*\}/1/ ||
-                              $dstat =~ s/\[[^\[\]]*\]/1/)
+                              $dstat =~ s/.\[[^\[\]]*\]/1/)
                        {
                        }
 
                                union|
                                struct|
                                \.$Ident\s*=\s*|
-                               ^\"|\"$
+                               ^\"|\"$|
+                               ^\[
                        }x;
                        #print "REST<$rest> dstat<$dstat> ctx<$ctx>\n";
                        if ($dstat ne '' &&