From 3b4fe6ecaa603faf78c42545354ae4e60659f267 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@canonical.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Oct 2010 14:23:11 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] --- yaml --- r: 217581 b: refs/heads/master c:
 6b4c5bebcebb0a48d29947e9aa749650751a7696 h: refs/heads/master i:   217579:
 c1878cbb82f95a813fb0c991eaf38fb0986186dc v: v3

---
 [refs]                      | 2 +-
 trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl | 9 ++++++---
 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
index 1af004a259d8..f45dd242a9fd 100644
--- a/[refs]
+++ b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 658716d19f8f155c67d4677ba68034b8e492dfbe
+refs/heads/master: 6b4c5bebcebb0a48d29947e9aa749650751a7696
diff --git a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2039acdf5122..0a87c7417ada 100755
--- a/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/trunk/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -1459,10 +1459,13 @@ sub process {
 		}
 
 # check for spaces at the beginning of a line.
-		if ($rawline =~ /^\+ / && $rawline !~ /\+ +\*/)  {
+# Exceptions:
+#  1) within comments
+#  2) indented preprocessor commands
+#  3) hanging labels
+		if ($rawline =~ /^\+ / && $line !~ /\+ *(?:$;|#|$Ident:)/)  {
 			my $herevet = "$here\n" . cat_vet($rawline) . "\n";
-			WARN("please, no space for starting a line, \
-				excluding comments\n" . $herevet);
+			WARN("please, no spaces at the start of a line\n" . $herevet);
 		}
 
 # check we are in a valid C source file if not then ignore this hunk