Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: loopback: Enclose multiple macro statements in do-while loop

[karthik <karthik@techveda.org>]

On Tuesday 18 July 2017 04:41 PM, Bryan O'Donoghue wrote:
> On 18/07/17 11:56, karthik@techveda.org wrote:
>> From: Karthik Tummala <karthik@techveda.org>
>>
>> Enclosed multiple macro statements in a do - while loop as per kernel
>> coding standard, pointed by checkpatch.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Karthik Tummala <karthik@techveda.org>
>> ---
>>   drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c | 10 ++++++----
>>   1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c 
>> b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
>> index 08e2558..c616555 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/loopback.c
>> @@ -176,10 +176,12 @@ static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name##_##field)
>>   }                                    \
>>   static DEVICE_ATTR_RO(name##_avg)
>> -#define gb_loopback_stats_attrs(field)                \
>> -    gb_loopback_ro_stats_attr(field, min, u);        \
>> -    gb_loopback_ro_stats_attr(field, max, u);        \
>> -    gb_loopback_ro_avg_attr(field)
>> +#define gb_loopback_stats_attrs(field)                    \
>> +do {                                    \
>> +    gb_loopback_ro_stats_attr(field, min, u);            \
>> +    gb_loopback_ro_stats_attr(field, max, u);            \
>> +    gb_loopback_ro_avg_attr(field);                    \
>> +} while (0)
>>   #define gb_loopback_attr(field, type)                    \
>>   static ssize_t field##_show(struct device *dev,                \
>>
> Macros with multiple statements should be enclosed in a do - while block:
> 
> .. code-block:: c
> 
>          #define macrofun(a, b, c)                       \
>                  do {                                    \
>                          if (a == 5)                     \
>                                  do_this(b, c);          \
>                  } while (0)
> 
> 
> I don't think it really applies.
> 
> We're declaring functions not inlining executable code.Hi,
It makes sense, thanks for the insight. Please drop this patch

Thanks