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From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: daniel watson <ozzloy@challenge-bot.com>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	Michael Hennerich <Michael.Hennerich@analog.com>,
	Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>,
	linux-iio@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging:iio:ade7854 surround complex defines in parentheses
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 08:12:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YRtTRpioOFBYxcxJ@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210817043038.GA9492@challenge-bot.com>

On Mon, Aug 16, 2021 at 09:30:38PM -0700, daniel watson wrote:
> 
> If this is a false positive from checkpatch, I can submit it as an
> example to the checkpatch maintainers.  Do you think I should?

checkpatch is a perl script that does pattern matching, it is really
hard for it to determine for things like this specific example, that it
is not needed.

Try finding other valid checkpatch cleanups if you wish to contribute in
this way, there are loads of others under drivers/staging/ that should
be easy to find.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2021-08-17  6:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-08-15  2:31 [PATCH] staging:iio:ade7854 surround complex defines in parentheses daniel watson
2021-08-15  6:25 ` Greg Kroah-Hartman
2021-08-17  4:30   ` daniel watson
2021-08-17  6:12     ` Greg Kroah-Hartman [this message]
2021-08-17  8:50       ` Joe Perches
2021-08-17  8:24     ` Fabio M. De Francesco

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