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checkpatch: reduce false positive rate of "complex macros"

Allow "#define foo struct.member" without bleating a warning.

This also allows "#define foo bar.baz->qux" and so on.

Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Joe Perches 12 years ago
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scripts/checkpatch.pl

@@ -3041,7 +3041,7 @@ sub process {
 			if ($dstat ne '' &&
 			    $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ &&			# 10, // foo(),
 			    $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ &&			# foo();
-			    $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Ident|$Constant)$/ &&		# 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo
+			    $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Lval|$Constant)$/ &&		# 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo // foo->bar // foo.bar->baz
 			    $dstat !~ /^'X'$/ &&					# character constants
 			    $dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
 			    $dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ &&				# .foo =