Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging:android_pmem.h: Fixes the space and otherformating issues pointed out by checkpatch.pl

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jan 20 2012 - 08:15:19 EST


On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:12 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:38:34PM +0530, Pradheep Shrinivasan wrote:
> >>> > > -#define PMEM_IOCTL_MAGIC 'p'
> >> > > +#define PMEM_IOCTL_MAGIC ('p')
> >> > You don't need parenthesis here. Did checkpatch really complain
> >> > about this?
> >> Yes the check patch does complain about the parenthesis.
> > That seems like a bug in checkpatch.pl. It's hard to imagine less
> > complex macro than: #define PMEM_IOCTL_MAGIC 'p'
> I can think of no way in which an unprotected character is different
> to an unprotected integer constant. So ...
> Does the version here work better for you:
> http://people.canonical.com/~apw/checkpatch/checkpatch-next.pl

diff here is:

@@ -2838,7 +2849,8 @@
if ($dstat ne '' &&
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ && # 10, // foo(),
$dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ && # foo();
- $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/ && # 10 // foo()
+ $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Ident|$Constant)$/ && # 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo
+ $dstat !~ /^'X'$/ && # character constants
$dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
$dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ && # .foo =
$dstat !~ /^do\s*$Constant\s*while\s*$Constant;?$/ && # do {...} while (...); // do {...} while (...)

I think the character change test is fine but
the !~- addition/change is suspect.

!~- are precedence level 3 operators
and can be impacted by things like ++
and function calls.

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