Re: [PATCH] HID: microsoft, do not use compound literal

From: Jiri Kosina
Date: Mon Nov 12 2012 - 07:15:03 EST


On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 10:16 AM, Jiri Slaby <jslaby@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > In patch "HID: microsoft: fix invalid rdesc for 3k kbd" I fixed
> > support for MS 3k keyboards. However the added check using memcmp and
> > a compound statement breaks build on architectures where memcmp is a
> > macro with parameters. The error looks there like (m68k-linux-gnu-gcc
> > 4.1.2):
> > hid-microsoft.c:51:18: error: macro "memcmp" passed 6 arguments, but takes just 3
> > hid-microsoft.c: In function âms_report_fixupâ:
> > drivers/hid/hid-microsoft.c:50: error: âmemcmpâ undeclared (first use in this function)
> > hid-microsoft.c:50: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once
> > /hid-microsoft.c:50: error: for each function it appears in.)
>
> The above 3 lines were actually from a build with a different config
> --- which I didn't
> notice at that time --- where <linux/string.h> was not indirectly included.

Still the patch needs string.h include addition, otherwise you still are
able to come up with m68k config that doesn't build, do I understand it
correctly?

Thanks,

--
Jiri Kosina
SUSE Labs
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