linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fix gb_loopback_stats

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Message-ID: <YJ67wCBVnI21YbUc@fedora>
Date:   Fri, 14 May 2021 23:34:48 +0530
From:   Shreyansh Chouhan <chouhan.shreyansh630@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, pure.logic@...us-software.ie,
        johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fix gb_loopback_stats_attrs definition

On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 08:56:10AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Fri, 2021-05-14 at 17:30 +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 08:42:16PM +0530, Shreyansh Chouhan wrote:
> []
> > > I didn't look at how/where was the macro called and missed a very
> > > obvious error. Now that I have looked at it, the only way I can think of
> > > fixing this is changing the macro to a (inline?) function. Will
> > > that be a desirable change?
> > 
> > No, it can't be a function, the code is fine as-is, checkpatch is just a
> > perl script and does not always know what needs to be done.
> 
> true.
> 
> perhaps better though to rename these declaring macros to start with declare_
> 
> Something like this:
> 

Can I mention you in the 'Suggested-by' tag for the commit? (Since you
suggested the idea for this patch.)

Regards,
Shreyansh Chouhan