[PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses
Sudip Mukherjee
sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com
Mon Oct 13 00:55:54 EDT 2014
On Mon, Oct 13, 2014 at 4:04 AM, <Valdis.Kletnieks at vt.edu> wrote:
> On Sat, 11 Oct 2014 14:52:40 +0100, Hugo Mills said:
>
>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 09:44:05AM -0400, nick wrote:
>> > Thank you for your help, I'll study the code and see what I can do
>> > about it. Do you have any suggestions of how to fix this checkpatch
>> > warning?
>>
>> Ignore it. The checker has clearly triggered on a false positive --
>> this is not a function call, and should not be held to that standard.
>> (Take a look at where the macro is actually used, to see what's going
>> on here). Move on to find something more interesting to fix.
>
> Am I the only one suspicious of the fact that Nick found one of the
> few false positives rather than one of the plentiful actual style
> problems?
no , you are not the only one. That particular file has lots of
checkpatch warning , and our Nick choose just the one which is a false
positive.
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