Re: Checkpatch error on trace events macros

From: Li Zefan
Date: Mon Jul 29 2013 - 23:05:19 EST


On 2013/7/30 10:36, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 10:06 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
>> On 2013/7/30 9:58, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> So what are these TRACE_<FOO> defines that need
>>> excluding from the "complex values" check?
>>>
>>> Anything other than
>>>
>>> TRACE_SYSTEM
>>> TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
>>> TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH
>>>
>>> ?
>>>
>>> samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
>>> only has those 3.
>>>
>>
>> Try:
>> # scripts/checkpatch.pl --file include/trace/events/*
>>
>> You'll see numerous errors. :)
>
> Nope, you'll see numerous whitespace defects, but no
> actual errors.
>
> If you run with:
>
> --ignore=spacing,long_line,code_indent,leading_space,printf_l,split_string,space_before_tab,trailing_whitespace,line_continuations
>

Serious? I'd just not run checkpatch.pl. ;)

> it's flawless.
>

The "complex values" check complaints come from many places in include/trace/events/*,
and I'm not going to check where and why.

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