From b9df76ac76da351cd4f6ba52369e9a64e9ab686d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Mar 2012 15:02:17 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] checkpatch: allow simple character constants in #defines

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
---
 scripts/checkpatch.pl | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 061c28e7bcfa..95ba30a24dcf 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2911,6 +2911,7 @@ sub process {
 			    $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ &&			# 10, // foo(),
 			    $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ &&			# foo();
 			    $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/ &&			# 10 // foo()
+			    $dstat !~ /^'X'$/ &&					# character constants
 			    $dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
 			    $dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ &&				# .foo =
 			    $dstat !~ /^do\s*$Constant\s*while\s*$Constant;?$/ &&	# do {...} while (...); // do {...} while (...)
-- 
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