Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: cleanup macros within include/rtw_debug.h

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:00:03PM +0000, Phillip Potter wrote:
> Remove do/while loops from DBG_871X, MSG_8192C and DBG_8192C. Also
> fix opening brace placements and trailing single statement layout within
> RT_PRINT_DATA, as well as making newline character placement more
> consistent and removing camel case where possible. Finally, add
> parentheses for DBG_COUNTER definition.
> 
> This fixes 3 checkpatch warnings, 5 checkpatch errors and 3 checkpatch
> checks.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Phillip Potter <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_debug.h | 40 +++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_debug.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_debug.h
> index c90adfb87261..d06ac9540cf7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_debug.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_debug.h
> @@ -201,19 +201,16 @@
>  #ifdef DEBUG
>  #if	defined(_dbgdump)
>  	#undef DBG_871X
> -	#define DBG_871X(...)     do {\
> -		_dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX __VA_ARGS__);\
> -	} while (0)
> +	#define DBG_871X(...)\
> +		_dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX __VA_ARGS__)
>  
>  	#undef MSG_8192C
> -	#define MSG_8192C(...)     do {\
> -		_dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX __VA_ARGS__);\
> -	} while (0)
> +	#define MSG_8192C(...)\
> +		_dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX __VA_ARGS__)
>  
>  	#undef DBG_8192C
> -	#define DBG_8192C(...)     do {\
> -		_dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX __VA_ARGS__);\
> -	} while (0)
> +	#define DBG_8192C(...)\
> +		_dbgdump(DRIVER_PREFIX __VA_ARGS__)

Odd, the do/while is correct here, why is checkpatch complaining about
it?

>  #endif /* defined(_dbgdump) */
>  #endif /* DEBUG */
>  
> @@ -235,25 +232,26 @@
>  
>  #if	defined(_dbgdump)
>  	#undef RT_PRINT_DATA
> -	#define RT_PRINT_DATA(_Comp, _Level, _TitleString, _HexData, _HexDataLen)			\
> -		if (((_Comp) & GlobalDebugComponents) && (_Level <= GlobalDebugLevel))	\
> -		{									\
> +	#define RT_PRINT_DATA(_comp, _level, _title_string, _hex_data, _hex_data_len)		\
> +	do {											\
> +		if (((_comp) & GlobalDebugComponents) && ((_level) <= GlobalDebugLevel)) {	\
>  			int __i;								\

This is not the same as the above stuff, when you find yourself writing
"also" in a changelog text, that's a huge hint you should break the
patch up into a patch series.

Please do that here, this is too much for one patch.

thanks,

greg k-h