Re: [PATCH] staging: gdm72xx: wm_ioctl.h: fixed a macro coding style

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Fri Nov 02 2012 - 04:14:59 EST


On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 12:36:30AM -0700, Kumar amit mehta wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 02, 2012 at 09:55:55AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Thu, Nov 01, 2012 at 11:42:59PM -0700, Kumar Amit Mehta wrote:
> > > fix for macro coding style.
> > >
> >
> > No. The parenthesis are not needed. I assume this is a
> > checkpatch.pl warning?
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> >
> Running checkpatch.pl on this file (wm_ioctl.h) returns error.
>

I think there are patches which fix checkpatch.pl for this but they
haven't been merged yet?

$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/gdm72xx/wm_ioctl.h
ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
#94: FILE: staging/gdm72xx/wm_ioctl.h:94:
+#define ifr_name ifr_ifrn.ifrn_name

total: 1 errors, 0 warnings, 97 lines checked

regards,
dan carpenter

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