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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: David Gow <davidgow@google.com>
Cc: shuah <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Brendan Higgins <brendanhiggins@google.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>,
	"open list:KERNEL SELFTEST FRAMEWORK" 
	<linux-kselftest@vger.kernel.org>,
	kunit-dev@googlegroups.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v6] lib/list-test: add a test for the 'list' doubly linked list
Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:17 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191030104217.GA18421@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABVgOSmCHbGjZBjeWSbPEZbJw22SaBQnoO77xxNzN_ugAwzNiQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Oct 30, 2019 at 01:02:11AM -0700, David Gow wrote:
> > ERROR: that open brace { should be on the previous line
> > #869: FILE: lib/list-test.c:680:
> > +static void list_test_list_for_each_entry_reverse(struct kunit *test)
> > +{
> >
> >
> > I am seeing these error and warns. As per our hallway conversation, the
> > "for_each*" in the test naming is tripping up checkpatch.pl
> >
> > For now you can change the name a bit to not trip checkpatch and maybe
> > explore fixing checkpatch to differentiate between function names
> > with "for_each" in them vs. the actual for_each usages in the code.
> 
> Thanks, Shuah.
> 
> Yes, the problem here is that checkpatch.pl believes that anything
> with "for_each" in its name must be a loop, so expects that the open
> brace is placed on the same line as for a for loop.
> 
> Longer term, I think it'd be nicer, naming-wise, to fix or work around
> this issue in checkpatch.pl itself, as that'd allow the tests to
> continue to follow a naming pattern of "list_test_[x]", where [x] is
> the name of the function/macro being tested. Of course, short of
> trying to fit a whole C parser in checkpatch.pl, that's going to
> involve some compromises as well.

Just make it a black list of the 5 most common for_each macros.

> 
> In the meantime, I'm sending out v7 which replaces "for_each" with
> "for__each" (adding the extra underscore), so that checkpatch is
> happy.

It's better to ignore checkpatch and other scripts when they are wrong.
(unless the warning message inspires you to make the code more readable
for humans).

regards,
dan carpenter


  reply	other threads:[~2019-10-30 10:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-10-24 22:46 [PATCH linux-kselftest/test v6] lib/list-test: add a test for the 'list' doubly linked list David Gow
2019-10-29 13:00 ` shuah
2019-10-30  8:02   ` David Gow
2019-10-30 10:42     ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-10-30 16:27       ` shuah
2019-10-30 16:35         ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-30 17:18           ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31  8:51             ` Brendan Higgins
2019-10-31 10:07               ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31 10:20               ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-30 18:46         ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-30 19:15           ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31  6:59             ` Dan Carpenter
2019-11-01 10:50             ` Rasmus Villemoes
2019-10-30 19:12         ` Dan Carpenter
2019-10-30 19:23           ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31  7:12             ` David Gow
2019-10-31  7:42               ` Dan Carpenter
2019-11-01 16:49             ` shuah
2019-10-30 16:31       ` Joe Perches
2019-10-31 18:50 ` Kees Cook
2019-11-01 10:25   ` David Gow

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