Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: wm_ioctl.h: fixed a macro codingstyle

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Nov 02 2012 - 07:32:18 EST


On Fri, 2012-11-02 at 11:14 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 12:36:30AM -0700, Kumar amit mehta wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:55:55AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 11:42:59PM -0700, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote:
> > > > fix for macro coding style.
> > > >
> > >
> > > No. The parenthesis are not needed. I assume this is a
> > > checkpatch.pl warning?
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
> > >
> > Running checkpatch.pl on this file (wm_ioctl.h) returns error.
> >
>
> I think there are patches which fix checkpatch.pl for this but they
> haven't been merged yet?
>
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/gdm72xx/wm_ioctl.h
> ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
> #94: FILE: staging/gdm72xx/wm_ioctl.h:94:
> +#define ifr_name ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name
>
> total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 97 lines checked

Maybe:

scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +-
1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
index ec58d31..b3c6a00 100755
--- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl
+++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl
@@ -2916,7 +2916,7 @@ sub process {
if ($dstat ne '' &&
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ && # 10, // foo(),
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ && # foo();
- $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Ident|$Constant)$/ && # 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo
+ $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Ident|$Constant|$Lval)$/ && # 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo // foo.bar[baz]->bop
$dstat !~ /^'X'$/ && # character constants
$dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
$dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ && # .foo =


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