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Subject: Re: [PATCH] checkpatch: Handle long multi-line macros better
From:   Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To:     Prakruthi Deepak Heragu <pheragu@codeaurora.org>, apw@canonical.com
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Date:   Tue, 10 Jul 2018 10:46:16 -0700
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On Tue, 2018-07-10 at 10:42 -0700, Prakruthi Deepak Heragu wrote:
> Currently, the checkpatch throws an error on long macro expressions which
> is more than one line i.e the opening and the closing bracket pair not
> being on the same line. This patch gives the dangling backslash the
> benefit of doubt and allows it to consider the closing paranthesis on the
> next line as part of the macro expression and doesn't throw an error.

Example please.