Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging:android_pmem.h: Fixes the space and other formating issues pointed out by checkpatch.pl

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Fri, 2012-01-20 at 11:12 +0000, Andy Whitcroft wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 6:54 PM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 11:38:34PM +0530, Pradheep Shrinivasan wrote:
> >>> > > -#define PMEM_IOCTL_MAGIC 'p'
> >> > > +#define PMEM_IOCTL_MAGIC ('p')
> >> > You don't need parenthesis here.  Did checkpatch really complain
> >> > about this?
> >> Yes the check patch does complain about the parenthesis.
> > That seems like a bug in checkpatch.pl.  It's hard to imagine less
> > complex macro than:  #define PMEM_IOCTL_MAGIC 'p'
> I can think of no way in which an unprotected character is different
> to an unprotected integer constant.  So ...
> Does the version here work better for you:
>     http://people.canonical.com/~apw/checkpatch/checkpatch-next.pl

diff here is:

@@ -2838,7 +2849,8 @@
                        if ($dstat ne '' &&
                            $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant),$/ &&                    # 10, // foo(),
                            $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant);$/ &&                    # foo();
-                           $dstat !~ /^(?:$Ident|-?$Constant)$/ &&                     # 10 // foo()
+                           $dstat !~ /^[!~-]?(?:$Ident|$Constant)$/ &&         # 10 // foo() // !foo // ~foo // -foo
+                           $dstat !~ /^'X'$/ &&                                        # character constants
                            $dstat !~ /$exceptions/ &&
                            $dstat !~ /^\.$Ident\s*=/ &&                                # .foo =
                            $dstat !~ /^do\s*$Constant\s*while\s*$Constant;?$/ &&       # do {...} while (...); // do {...} while (...)

I think the character change test is fine but
the !~- addition/change is suspect.

!~- are precedence level 3 operators
and can be impacted by things like ++
and function calls.