Re: [PATCH for-5.1 0/8] qemu-option: Fix corner cases and clean up

[Markus Armbruster <armbru@redhat.com>]

Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com> writes:

> On 4/9/20 12:09 PM, no-reply@patchew.org wrote:
>> Patchew URL: https://patchew.org/QEMU/20200409153041.17576-1-armbru@redhat.com/
>>
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This series seems to have some coding style problems. See output below for
>> more information:
>>
>
>> === OUTPUT BEGIN ===
>> 1/8 Checking commit 2e003109273b (tests-qemu-opts: Cover has_help_option(), qemu_opt_has_help_opt())
>> WARNING: Block comments use a leading /* on a separate line
>> #37: FILE: tests/test-qemu-opts.c:747:
>> +        { "a,b,,help", false /* BUG */, true, true },
>
> Annoying, but I don't mind ignoring it (especially since we fix the
> bug later in the series).
>
>>
>> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 50 lines checked
>>
>> Patch 1/8 has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
>> are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
>> CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
>> 2/8 Checking commit 8bb805dd3730 (qemu-options: Factor out get_opt_name_value() helper)
>> 3/8 Checking commit b3630a346906 (qemu-option: Fix sloppy recognition of "id=..." after ", , ")
>> 4/8 Checking commit 5c1b2db0b7ad (qemu-option: Avoid has_help_option() in qemu_opts_parse_noisily())
>> 5/8 Checking commit 6845c29bee11 (qemu-option: Fix has_help_option()'s sloppy parsing)
>> 6/8 Checking commit b7fcaaeeeb6f (test-qemu-opts: Simplify test_has_help_option() after bug fix)
>> 7/8 Checking commit b164930d4c8d (qemu-img: Factor out accumulate_options() helper)
>> 8/8 Checking commit 505f5f389855 (qemu-option: Move is_valid_option_list() to qemu-img.c and rewrite)
>> ERROR: suspect code indent for conditional statements (4, 4)
>> #61: FILE: qemu-img.c:243:
>> +    for (i = len; i > 0 && optarg[i - 1] == ','; i--) {
>> +    }
>
> False positive. Maybe you can shut up the checker by:
>     for (...) {
>         /* nothing further to do */
>     }

I don't like to add code to work around checkpatch bugs.  Rare
checkpatch bugs can be ignored, non-rare ones should be fixed.