Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v2 0/5] [RFC] Add HAX support

[Vincent Palatin <vpalatin@chromium.org>]

On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 9:55 AM, Stefan Weil <stefan.weil@weilnetz.de> wrote:
> On 11/14/16 09:21, Vincent Palatin wrote:
>>
>> On Sun, Nov 13, 2016 at 4:20 AM,  <no-reply@patchew.org> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> === OUTPUT BEGIN ===
>>> fatal: unrecognized argument: --no-patch
>>> Checking PATCH 1/5: ...
>>> fatal: unrecognized argument: --no-patch
>>> Checking PATCH 2/5: ...
>>> fatal: unrecognized argument: --no-patch
>>> Checking PATCH 3/5: ...
>>> fatal: unrecognized argument: --no-patch
>>> Checking PATCH 4/5: ...
>>> fatal: unrecognized argument: --no-patch
>>> Checking PATCH 5/5: ...
>>> ERROR: spaces required around that '-' (ctx:WxV)
>>> #158: FILE: cpus.c:1276:
>>> +        if (SuspendThread(cpu->hThread) == (DWORD) -1) {
>>>                                                     ^
>>>
>>> ERROR: spaces required around that '-' (ctx:WxV)
>>> #176: FILE: cpus.c:1294:
>>> +        if (ResumeThread(cpu->hThread) == (DWORD) -1) {
>>>                                                    ^
>>>
>>
>> Apparently I missed this couple of warnings when I did my final checkpatch
>> pass.
>> At the same time, I have no idea how to solve this one, can anybody
>> enlighten me ?
>> Having a space on both sides of a unary minus doesn't seem what we want,
>> so I imagine something else is wrong and confuse a bit checkpatch.pl.
>
>
>
> (DWORK)(-1) works for checkpatch.pl.

Yes, thanks. This should be an acceptable workaround, I will update my
next series.

>
> I noticed a strange behaviour of checkpatch.pl:
>
> If I run it on all of your five commits, it does not find any error.
> If I run it only on the 5th commit, it shows the two errors like above.

Interesting, that's why I missed it in first place ... I was a bit confused.

-- 
Vincent