linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: Replace macro with flow control statement by a function

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Date:	Mon, 6 Jul 2015 10:32:57 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	Arjun Krishna Babu <arjunkrishnababu96@...il.com>
Cc:	lidza.louina@...il.com, markh@...pro.net,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
	driverdev-devel@...uxdriverproject.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: Replace macro with flow control statement
 by a function

On Sun, Jul 05, 2015 at 11:46:28PM +0530, Arjun Krishna Babu wrote:
> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
> 
> WARNING: Macros with flow control statements should be avoided
> 
> Replace the macro with a function doing the exact same task as the
> macro.
> 

No.  You haven't understood what DGNC_VERIFY_BOARD() does and have you
even tried to compile this?  Surely the compiler will complain that some
paths don't have a return value?

regards,
dan carpenter

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