Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: eclose macro in a do - while loop

[Julia Lawall]

On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Menna Mahmoud wrote:

>
> On ١١/٣/٢٠٢٣ ١٦:٠٦, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 03:59:19PM +0200, Menna Mahmoud wrote:
> > > " ERROR: Macros with multiple statements should be enclosed in a do -
> > > while loop"
> > >
> > > Reported by checkpath.
> > >
> > > do loop with the conditional expression set to a constant
> > > value of zero (0).This creates a loop that
> > > will execute exactly one time.This is a coding idiom that
> > > allows a multi-line macro to be used anywhere
> > > that a single statement can be used.
> > >
> > > So, enclose `gb_loopback_stats_attrs` macro in do - while (0) to
> > > fix checkpath error
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > This breaks the build.  You need to compile the code before sending a
> > patch.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
>
>
> I see, I thought building the file only enough. appreciate your feedback.

The outreachy tutorial explains how to compile everything in a
subdirectory.

julia