From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>

Allow printk strings to break the 80 character width limits, thus keeping
them complete and searchable.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
---

 scripts/checkpatch.pl |    4 +++-
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff -puN scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-printk-strings-to-exceed-80-characters-to-maintain-their-searchability scripts/checkpatch.pl
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl~checkpatch-allow-printk-strings-to-exceed-80-characters-to-maintain-their-searchability
+++ a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1138,7 +1138,9 @@ sub process {
 		}
 #80 column limit
 		if ($line =~ /^\+/ && $prevrawline !~ /\/\*\*/ &&
-		    $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ && $length > 80)
+		    $rawline !~ /^.\s*\*\s*\@$Ident\s/ &&
+		    $line !~ /^\+\s*printk\s*\(\s*(?:KERN_\S+\s*)?"[X\t]*"\s*(?:,|\)\s*;)\s*$/ &&
+		    $length > 80)
 		{
 			WARN("line over 80 characters\n" . $herecurr);
 		}
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