linux-kernel - [PATCH v4 0/2] codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a function-like macro

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Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 15:21:34 +1300
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Subject: [PATCH v4 0/2] codingstyle: avoid unused parameters for a function-like macro

From: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@...o.com>

-v4:
 * fix Xining's email address, s/ma.xxn@...look.com/mac.xxn@...look.com/g
 * fix some false positives of checkpatch.pl
 * downgrade from ERROR to WARN in checkpatch.pl

 Thanks for Joe's comments!

-v3:
 https://lore.kernel.org/all/20240322084937.66018-1-21cnbao@gmail.com/

A function-like macro could result in build warnings such as
"unused variable." This patchset updates the guidance to
recommend always using a static inline function instead
and also provides checkpatch support for this new rule.

Barry Song (1):
  Documentation: coding-style: ask function-like macros to evaluate
    parameters

Xining Xu (1):
  scripts: checkpatch: check unused parameters for function-like macro

 Documentation/process/coding-style.rst | 16 ++++++++++++++
 scripts/checkpatch.pl                  | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 46 insertions(+)

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