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From: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
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Subject: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 3/5] tools/checkpatch: relax constraints on
	__rte_experimental
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Relax the constraints on __rte_experimental usage, allow redefining
to macros.

Signed-off-by: Honnappa Nagarahalli <honnappa.nagarahalli@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Gavin Hu <gavin.hu@arm.com>
---
 devtools/checkpatches.sh | 11 ++++++++---
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/devtools/checkpatches.sh b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
index 560e6ce93..090c9b08a 100755
--- a/devtools/checkpatches.sh
+++ b/devtools/checkpatches.sh
@@ -99,9 +99,14 @@ check_experimental_tags() { # <patch>
 			ret = 1;
 		}
 		if ($1 != "+__rte_experimental" || $2 != "") {
-			print "__rte_experimental must appear alone on the line" \
-				" immediately preceding the return type of a function."
-			ret = 1;
+			# code such as "#define XYZ __rte_experimental" is
+			# allowed
+			if ($1 != "+#define") {
+				print "__rte_experimental must appear alone " \
+				      "on the line immediately preceding the " \
+				      "return type of a function."
+				ret = 1;
+			}
 		}
 	}
 	END {
-- 
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