Re: Checkpatch error on trace events macros

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Tue, 2013-07-30 at 09:30 +0800, Li Zefan wrote:
> On 2013/7/30 3:52, Sarah Sharp wrote:
> > Hi Andy and Joe,
> > 
> > Checkpatch is complaining when code adds new trace events macros:
> > 
> > sarah@xanatos:~/git/kernels/xhci$ git am -s ~/Maildir.fetchmail/.to-apply
> > Applying: xhci: add traces for debug messages in xhci_address_device()
> > ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
> > #86: FILE: drivers/usb/host/xhci-trace.h:15:
> > +#define TRACE_SYSTEM xhci-hcd
> > 
> > ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
> > #115: FILE: drivers/usb/host/xhci-trace.h:44:
> > +#define TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH .
> > 
> > ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
> > #118: FILE: drivers/usb/host/xhci-trace.h:47:
> > +#define TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE xhci-trace
> > 
> > total: 3 errors, 0 warnings, 169 lines checked
> > 
> > 
> > The macros have to be defined that way for trace events to work.
> 
> yeah, that's true, and we always just ignore chechpatch complaints
> when it comes to TRACE_EVENT macros.
> 
> > Can you fix checkpatch not to complain about trace event macros?
> > 

So what are these TRACE_<FOO> defines that need
excluding from the "complex values" check?

Anything other than 

TRACE_SYSTEM
TRACE_INCLUDE_FILE
TRACE_INCLUDE_PATH

?

samples/trace_events/trace-events-sample.h
only has those 3.