Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: loopback: enclose macro statements in do-while loop

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 08:58:17PM +0530, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 11:50:45AM -0400, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 05:40:59PM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 11:27:30AM -0400, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 05:10:17PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2022, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Sun, Oct 16, 2022 at 04:51:09PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > On Sun, 16 Oct 2022, Deepak R Varma wrote:
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > Include multiple statements of macro definition inside do-while{0} loop
> > > > > > > > to avoid possible partial program execution. Issue reported by
> > > > > > > > checkpatch script:
> > > > > > > >
> > > > > > > > ERROR: Macros with multiple statements should be enclosed in a do - while loop
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I don't think this change will compile.  See if you can figure out why
> > > > > > > not.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It did compile. I built the greybus driver and loaded it as well with the
> > > > > > modinfo tool. Can you please tell why you think it won't compile?
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you have a .o file for the .c file that you changed?
> > > >
> > > > I see many .o files and a greybus.ko as well, but not the loopback.o
> > > > Am I missing anything with my configuration? I did set Greybus Support to (M) in
> > > > the menuconfig.
> > >
> > > CONFIG_GREYBUS_LOOPBACK has to be enabled in order to build the
> > > drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c file.
> > >
> > > A simple check would be to do:
> > > 	make drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.o
> > >
> > > does that work with your change?
> >
> > No, it did not. I understand why it did not. My apologies for not looking into
> > the build of loopback.o file when the greybus module was rebuilt.
> >
> > Please ignore my patch.
> 
> I just received a message from Kernel Test Robot that this patch failed to
> compile. I had requested to drop/ignore this patch. However, looks like it
> included in the staging-testing tree????

It just took a while to get to your patch, it picked it up off of the
mailing list, the change is not applied anywhere.

> Let me know anything required from me to fix the bot complaint. Thank you.

There's nothing to do as it's long-gone from my queue.

thanks,

greg k-h