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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fwserial: replace 'a' with '(a)' to avoid precedence issues
Date: Tue, 14 Feb 2017 10:08:45 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170214180845.GA8426@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170214175620.GA7418@arushi-HP-Pavilion-Notebook>

On Tue, Feb 14, 2017 at 11:26:20PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> Macro argument 'a' may be better as '(a)' to avoid precedence issues as
> reported by checkpatch.pl
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c b/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
> index 41a49c8194e5..bdfc0a8c7af3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.c
> @@ -98,7 +98,7 @@ struct fwtty_transaction {
>  	};
>  };
>  
> -#define to_device(a, b)			(a->b)
> +#define to_device((a), b)			(a->b)

Really?  Why do we even have this macro at all?  Can it just be removed?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-02-14 18:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-02-14 17:56 [PATCH] staging: fwserial: replace 'a' with '(a)' to avoid precedence issues Arushi Singhal
2017-02-14 18:08 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-02-15  8:14   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2017-02-15  9:31     ` Joe Perches
2017-02-14 20:27 ` kbuild test robot
2017-02-14 21:17 ` kbuild test robot

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