Re: [PATCH 9/9] treewide: Remove newlines inside DEFINE_PER_CPU() macros

From: Michal Marek
Date: Thu Oct 22 2015 - 08:24:23 EST


On 2015-10-22 14:14, Prarit Bhargava wrote:
> On 10/22/2015 08:06 AM, Michal Marek wrote:
>> It used to require a closing parenthesis, so it would not match the
>> multiline macro invocations at all. Now it matches them, but ctags
>> correctly warns that the empty string is probably not what we intended
>> to match.
>
> It seems wrong to change kernel code, not for a bug, but for a userspace search.

The bug is that the code cannot be indexed using ctags or etags.

Michal

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