Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 8/8] treewide: Remove newlines inside DEFINE_PER_CPU() macros

From: Joe Perches <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 09:04:21 -0800

On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 17:53 +0100, Michal Marek wrote:
> On 2015-12-07 17:33, David Laight wrote:
> > From: Michal Marek
> > > Sent: 04 December 2015 15:26
> > > Otherwise make tags can't parse them:
> > > 
> > > ctags: Warning: arch/ia64/kernel/smp.c:60: null expansion of name pattern "\1"
> > ...
> > 
> > Seems to me you need to fix ctags.
> 
> I'm sure the maintainers of ctags and etags would accept patches to
> describe a custom context-free grammar via commandline options, but
> until then, let's continue using the regular expressions in tags.sh and
> remove newlines in macros that tags.sh is trying to expand.
> 

Do you have a list of the most common macros?

Perhaps it'd be good to add exceptions to checkpatch
80 column line rules for them.