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Thu, 12 Mar 2026 06:57:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2026 16:56:58 +0300 From: Dan Carpenter To: Zile Xiong Cc: andy@kernel.org, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, deller@gmx.de, abdun.nihaal@gmail.com, chintanlike@gmail.com, niejianglei2021@163.com, dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: avoid empty macro argument in define_fbtft_write_reg Message-ID: References: <20260312111807.96789-1-xiongzile99@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20260312111807.96789-1-xiongzile99@gmail.com> On Thu, Mar 12, 2026 at 07:18:07PM +0800, Zile Xiong wrote: > Replace the empty modifier argument with a simple identity macro. > This fixes the error reported by scripts/checkpatch.pl while keeping > the original semantics unchanged. > > The generated code is equivalent and builds successfully. > > Signed-off-by: Zile Xiong > --- > drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c | 6 +++--- > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c > index 30e436ff19e4..380dd374a566 100644 > --- a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c > +++ b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fbtft-bus.c > @@ -61,10 +61,10 @@ out: \ > va_end(args); \ > } \ > EXPORT_SYMBOL(func); > - > -define_fbtft_write_reg(fbtft_write_reg8_bus8, u8, u8, ) > +#define fbtft_identity(x) (x) Someone sent this exact same patch before. Same name and everything. https://lore.kernel.org/all/aYECoy7Apjwgzr9r@stanley.mountain/ A better sollution is to learn to just ignore checkpatch when it is wrong. My previous email was longer. regards, dan carpenter