Re: [Bug report] Hit false positives bug with script/checkpatch.pl

[ethan zhao <ethan.zhao@oracle.com>]

On 2014/7/16 12:20, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 10:50 +0800, Ethan Zhao wrote:
>> Hi,
>>       I hit a false positives bug when run script/checkpatch.pl to my patch,
>> It reported  errors to following macro definition, but in fact the macro is
>> correct, I couldn't change that macro according to the error message output
>> by script/checkpatch.pl. because of this bug, my patch was rejected by some
>> guy's patchwork.
> You could tell the guy checkpatch isn't always right.
  He doesn't see my patch, because he filters it out for this issue.
>
> You could also change the macro to something like:
>
> #define NETXEN_NIC_STAT(name, m)				\
> {								\
> 	.name = name,						\
> 	.type = m,						\
> 	.sizeof_stat = FIELD_SIZEOF(struct netxen_adapter, m),	\
> 	.stat_offset = offsetof(struct netxen_adapter, m)	\
> }
  This works for me, thanks for your reply.

  Ethan
> and change the uses like:
>
> static const struct netxen_nic_stats netxen_nic_gstrings_stats[] = {
> 	NETXEN_NIC_STAT("xmit called", stats.xmitcalled),
> 	NETXEN_NIC_STAT("xmit_finished", stats.xmitfinished),
>
> etc...
>
>