Re: [PATCH] staging: gasket: gasket_ioctl: Remove unnecessary line-breaks in funtion signature

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Nov 07 2019 - 10:09:21 EST


On Wed, Nov 06, 2019 at 11:12:09AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2019-11-06 at 18:08 +0000, Valery Ivanov wrote:
> > This patch fix the function signature for trace_gasket_ioctl_page_table_data
> > to avoid the checkpatch.pl warning:
> >
> > CHECK: Lines should not end with a '('
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Valery Ivanov <ivalery111@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> All of this stuff is no-op and could just as easily be removed
> completely as GASKET_KERNEL_TRACE_SUPPORT is not #defined anywhere.
>
> Is the actual trace #include file supposed to be available somewhere?
>
> #ifdef GASKET_KERNEL_TRACE_SUPPORT
> #define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> #include <trace/events/gasket_ioctl.h>
> #else
> #define trace_gasket_ioctl_entry(x, ...)
> #define trace_gasket_ioctl_exit(x)
> #define trace_gasket_ioctl_integer_data(x)
> #define trace_gasket_ioctl_eventfd_data(x, ...)
> #define trace_gasket_ioctl_page_table_data(x, ...)
> #define trace_gasket_ioctl_config_coherent_allocator(x, ...)
> #endif
>
> trace file not found...

I'm thinking the whole gasket driver should be deleted as there has not
been any effort done to fix it up and get it out of staging. I'll give
it until 5.5 before I drop it...

thanks,

greg k-h