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diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index 2039acdf5122..0a87c7417ada 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/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