On Mon, 2018-10-08 at 10:56 +0300, Igor Stoppa wrote: > Hi, > > I have the following fragment of code: > > +struct my_struct { > + atomic_long_t l __aligned(sizeof(atomic_long_t)); > +} __aligned(sizeof(atomic_long_t)); > > > triggering this warning, when fed to checkpatch.pl: > > WARNING: function definition argument 'atomic_long_t' should also have > an identifier name > #19: FILE: path/to/file.h > + atomic_long_t l __aligned(sizeof(atomic_long_t)); > > > gcc [(Ubuntu 7.3.0-16ubuntu3) 7.3.0] seems to be happy about it > > I am using the HEAD from mainline. > > My intent is to specify the alignment of both the field and the > structure (yes, probably redundant in this single-field case). > > If I am doing something wrong, I can't figure out what it is, but I > don't understand why the WARNING is mentioning a function definition.
It's a defect in checkpatch. For now, just ignore the message. I will work on it later.