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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1709140709450.2091@hadrien>
Date:   Thu, 14 Sep 2017 07:10:00 +0200 (CEST)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
cc:     Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, daniel.baluta@...il.com,
        Himanshi Jain <himshijain.hj@...il.com>,
        Michael.Hennerich@...log.com, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, nick.desaulniers@...il.com,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com, pmeerw@...erw.net,
        knaack.h@....de, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2 1/2] include: linux: sysfs:
 Add __ATTR_NAMED macro



On Wed, 13 Sep 2017, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2017-09-14 at 00:43 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > He was exagerating a bit to call it a "static checker" warning...
>
> Not really.
>
> False positives and false negatives exist in just about
> every static
> checker.
>
> > It's just checkpatch.pl complaining about adding spaces around the -
> > operator.
>
> checkpatch is a brain-damaged by design static checker.
> regexes can only be sensitive to patterns, not compiled code.
>
> > The sysfs file has a hyphen in the middle.
>
> Another option would be to use an underscore instead.

There are already underscores on either side.

julia

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