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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de>,
	devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, daniel.baluta@gmail.com,
	Himanshi Jain <himshijain.hj@gmail.com>,
	Michael.Hennerich@analog.com, linux-iio@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, nick.desaulniers@gmail.com,
	outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com, pmeerw@pmeerw.net,
	knaack.h@gmx.de, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] include: linux: sysfs: Add __ATTR_NAMED macro
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 14:58:23 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1505339903.8969.20.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170913214333.mcw4f24fkzndwh5k@mwanda>

On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 00:43 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> He was exagerating a bit to call it a "static checker" warning...

Not really.

False positives and false negatives exist in just about
every static
checker.

> It's just checkpatch.pl complaining about adding spaces around the -
> operator.

checkpatch is a brain-damaged by design static checker.
regexes can only be sensitive to patterns, not compiled code.

> The sysfs file has a hyphen in the middle.

Another option would be to use an underscore instead.

  reply	other threads:[~2017-09-13 21:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-09-13  8:42 [PATCH v2 0/2] Rewrite the IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_NAMED API to pass name as string Himanshi Jain
2017-09-13  8:44 ` [PATCH v2 1/2] include: linux: sysfs: Add __ATTR_NAMED macro Himanshi Jain
2017-09-13  8:44   ` [PATCH v2 2/2] iio: Change to __ATTR_NAMED() Himanshi Jain
2017-09-13 17:03   ` [PATCH v2 1/2] include: linux: sysfs: Add __ATTR_NAMED macro Jonathan Cameron
2017-09-13 18:58     ` Greg KH
2017-09-13 19:23       ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2017-09-13 20:50         ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-09-18 10:49           ` Himanshi Jain
2017-09-21 13:54             ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-09-21 14:07               ` [Outreachy kernel] " Julia Lawall
2017-09-13 21:29         ` Greg KH
2017-09-13 21:43           ` Dan Carpenter
2017-09-13 21:58             ` Joe Perches [this message]
2017-09-13 23:16               ` Jonathan Cameron
2017-09-14  5:10               ` [Outreachy kernel] " Julia Lawall
2017-09-19 12:13           ` Lars-Peter Clausen
2017-09-13  8:46 ` [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH v2 0/2] Rewrite the IIO_DEVICE_ATTR_NAMED API to pass name as string Julia Lawall
2017-09-13 17:04   ` Jonathan Cameron

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