linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 05/15] staging: rtl8723bs: put parentheses on macros with complex values in include/drv

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Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 17:22:57 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@...il.com>
Cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 05/15] staging: rtl8723bs: put parentheses on macros with
 complex values in include/drv_types.h

On Fri, Mar 26, 2021 at 10:09:12AM +0100, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> fix the following checkpatch warning:
> 
> ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parentheses
> 279: FILE: drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h:279:
> +#define KEY_ARG(x) ((u8 *)(x))[0], ((u8 *)(x))[1],
> ((u8 *)(x))[2], ((u8 *)(x))[3], ((u8 *)(x))[4], ((u8 *)(x))[5], \
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fabio Aiuto <fabioaiuto83@...il.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h
> index 1658450b386e..ead4cb9c1e5a 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/drv_types.h
> @@ -276,9 +276,9 @@ struct cam_entry_cache {
>  };
>  
>  #define KEY_FMT "%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x%02x"
> -#define KEY_ARG(x) ((u8 *)(x))[0], ((u8 *)(x))[1], ((u8 *)(x))[2], ((u8 *)(x))[3], ((u8 *)(x))[4], ((u8 *)(x))[5], \
> +#define KEY_ARG(x) (((u8 *)(x))[0], ((u8 *)(x))[1], ((u8 *)(x))[2], ((u8 *)(x))[3], ((u8 *)(x))[4], ((u8 *)(x))[5], \
>  	((u8 *)(x))[6], ((u8 *)(x))[7], ((u8 *)(x))[8], ((u8 *)(x))[9], ((u8 *)(x))[10], ((u8 *)(x))[11], \
> -	((u8 *)(x))[12], ((u8 *)(x))[13], ((u8 *)(x))[14], ((u8 *)(x))[15]
> +	((u8 *)(x))[12], ((u8 *)(x))[13], ((u8 *)(x))[14], ((u8 *)(x))[15])

KEY_ARG() isn't used anywhere that I can see.  Just delete it.

Please take your time when you re-write this series and think about each
change clearly and fix the underlying badness instead of just making
checkpatch happy.  I would really just throw out the patchset and start
over from scratch.

regards,
dan carpenter