Checkpatch complains on a lot of stuff that is legitimate C... And
many things are considered errors when I personally think a warning
should suffice.

I also had a case where checkpatch complained (error I think) on the
definition of a macro (something related to inline assembly), it
expanded into multiple separate "terms" (e.g. __asm and __volatile)
and recommended I put parenthesis around the definition. Except that
that caused a syntax error when compiling. So checkpatch's knowledge
of C and the GNU extensions is limited.

-- Ola


On 10 November 2014 00:39, Bill Fischofer <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm working through my patch trying to get it checkpatch clean and one of
> the thingns that checkpatch is complaining about is the use of anonymous bit
> fields.  For example:
>
> struct foo {
>      uint32_t  :2;                   /* We don't care about these bits */
>      uing32_t goodstuff:12;  /* The stuff we care about */
>     ....
> }.
>
> this is legitimate C but checkpatch flags this as an error.  So we're
> supposed to make up dummy names for what would otherwise be anonymous
> bitfields?  Not sure I understand the logic behind that.
>
> Any insights?
>
> Bill
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