linux-kernel - Re: Possible code defects: macros and precedence

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Message-ID: <1474190873.1954.14.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sun, 18 Sep 2016 02:27:53 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
Cc:     Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Possible code defects: macros and precedence

On Sun, 2016-09-18 at 06:57 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote:
> You did say that checkpatch was giving a lot of noise.  In the end, is it
> actually just that there are a lot of changes to make

Actually, the first attempt used just the checkpatch $Operators
pattern match which also matches a comma so there were a lot
of false positives.

This current version specifically excludes commas so there
seem to be far fewer or nearly no false positives.

There are a _lot_ of matches though.