Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: Fix checkpatch ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'

[Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>]

Hi Shobhit,

Thanks for your patch!

On Fri, Jun 14, 2019 at 4:34 AM Shobhit Kukreti
<shobhitkukreti@gmail.com> wrote:
> Cleaned up code to resolve  the checkpatch error
> ERROR: space prohibited before that close parenthesis ')'
> from the file:
>
> fbtft/fbtft-bus.c

IMHO that is a bogus checkpatch error...

> Signed-off-by: Shobhit Kukreti <shobhitkukreti@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
> index 2ea814d..2b43bc2 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c
> @@ -62,9 +62,9 @@ out:                                                                        \
>  }                                                                             \
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(func);
>
> -define_fbtft_write_reg(fbtft_write_reg8_bus8, u8, u8, )
> +define_fbtft_write_reg(fbtft_write_reg8_bus8, u8, u8,)
>  define_fbtft_write_reg(fbtft_write_reg16_bus8, __be16, u16, cpu_to_be16)
> -define_fbtft_write_reg(fbtft_write_reg16_bus16, u16, u16, )
> +define_fbtft_write_reg(fbtft_write_reg16_bus16, u16, u16,)

... as the space is the (mandatory) separator between the comma and the
(empty) last parameter value.

Checkpatch has some limitations when parsing the C preprocessor macro
languagage.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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