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From: Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>
To: Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@gmail.com>
Cc: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>,
	outreachy@lists.linux.dev,  pure.logic@nexus-software.ie,
	johan@kernel.org, elder@kernel.org,  gregkh@linuxfoundation.org,
	greybus-dev@lists.linaro.org,  linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: eclose macro in a do - while loop
Date: Sat, 11 Mar 2023 16:00:59 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2303111600330.2802@hadrien> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9ae27dc-3538-5432-6a6d-3e2ff034f467@gmail.com>

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On Sat, 11 Mar 2023, Menna Mahmoud wrote:

>
> On ١١/٣/٢٠٢٣ ١٦:٠٦, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 11, 2023 at 03:59:19PM +0200, Menna Mahmoud wrote:
> > > " ERROR: Macros with multiple statements should be enclosed in a do -
> > > while loop"
> > >
> > > Reported by checkpath.
> > >
> > > do loop with the conditional expression set to a constant
> > > value of zero (0).This creates a loop that
> > > will execute exactly one time.This is a coding idiom that
> > > allows a multi-line macro to be used anywhere
> > > that a single statement can be used.
> > >
> > > So, enclose `gb_loopback_stats_attrs` macro in do - while (0) to
> > > fix checkpath error
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > This breaks the build.  You need to compile the code before sending a
> > patch.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
>
>
> I see, I thought building the file only enough. appreciate your feedback.

The outreachy tutorial explains how to compile everything in a
subdirectory.

julia

  reply	other threads:[~2023-03-11 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-03-11 13:59 [PATCH] staging: greybus: eclose macro in a do - while loop Menna Mahmoud
2023-03-11 14:06 ` Dan Carpenter
2023-03-11 14:51   ` Menna Mahmoud
2023-03-11 15:00     ` Julia Lawall [this message]
2023-03-12 13:39       ` Menna Mahmoud
2023-03-11 14:36 ` Julia Lawall
2023-03-11 14:54   ` Menna Mahmoud
2023-03-11 15:55 ` kernel test robot
2023-03-11 19:10 ` Alex Elder
2023-03-12 13:43   ` Menna Mahmoud

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