Re: [PATCH 1/1] checkpatch: allow multi-statement declarative macros.

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 09:20 -0600, jim.cromie@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, May 16, 2024 at 8:43 AM Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > On Thu, 2024-05-16 at 08:14 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> > > Declarative macros, which declare/define storage (at either file or
> > > function scope), cannot be wrapped in do-while statements.  So
> > > checkpatch advice is incorrect here.
> > > 
> > > The code has an $exceptions regex which allows multiple statements
> > > based on the macro name, etc; /DECLARE_PER_CPU|DEFINE_PER_CPU/ are
> > > currently accepted, widen those to accept /DECLARE|DEFINE/.
> > 
> > It seems this exempts too large a number of these macros
> > 
> > $ git grep -P '^\s*\#\s*define\s+\w*(?:DECLARE|DEFINE)\w*'|wc -l
> > 5075
> > 
> 
> wow, thats more than Id have thought.
> 
> > How about somehow limiting these exemptions more strictly?
> 
> agreed.  I'll just add my 1 exceptional macro name.
> resending shortly.

Is this macro used in a lot of places?
Otherwise, why not just ignore the macro where it occurs?