Re: [PATCH net-next 7/7] sfc: add debugfs node for filter table contents

[Jakub Kicinski <kuba@kernel.org>]

On Tue, 12 Dec 2023 15:14:17 +0000 Edward Cree wrote:
> On 12/12/2023 13:58, Edward Cree wrote:
> > On 11/12/2023 19:17, Simon Horman wrote:  
> >> On Mon, Dec 11, 2023 at 05:18:32PM +0000, edward.cree@amd.com wrote:  
>  [...]  
> >>
> >> Hi Edward,
> >>
> >> I think that probably the above should be static inline.  
> > 
> > Yep, in fact there are instances of this from patch 2 onwards (most
> >  of those aren't even static).  Clearly I hadn't had enough sleep
> >  the day I wrote this :/  
> Or maybe it's *today* I haven't had enough sleep...
> Unlike the functions in patches 2-4, which are stubs for the
>  CONFIG_DEBUG_FS=n build, these functions should *not* be "static
>  inline", because they are intended to be referenced from ops
>  structs or passed as callbacks.
> The check on patchwork is actually a false positive here, because
>  this is not a function that's defined in the header file.  It's
>  part of the body of a *macro*, EFX_DEBUGFS_RAW_PARAMETER.
> Functions are only defined when some C file expands the macro.
> 
> I will update the commit message to call out and explain this; I
>  believe the code is actually fine.

Fair point, second time in a ~month we see this sort of false positive.
I'll throw [^\\]$ at the end of the regex to try to avoid matching stuff
that's most likely a macro.

This one looks legit tho:

+void efx_debugfs_print_filter(char *s, size_t l, struct efx_filter_spec *spec) {}