linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] scripts: add macro_checker script to check unused parameters in macros

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Message-ID: <fcfc079f251657f9017f86b626e0595897cb8163.camel@sipsolutions.net>
Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2024 11:06:33 +0200
From: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, Julian Sun
	 <sunjunchao2870@...il.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, 
 linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, jack@...e.cz, brauner@...nel.org, 
 viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, masahiroy@...nel.org, n.schier@....de,
 ojeda@...nel.org,  djwong@...nel.org, kvalo@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] scripts: add macro_checker script to check unused
 parameters in macros

> 
> Makes me wonder who will run this, and why.

I suspect once it's there we could convince folks like the 0-day robot
maintainers or Jakub for nipa [1] to run it and at least flag newly
reported issues.

[1] https://github.com/linux-netdev/nipa


Or maybe run it with W=1 like we run kernel-doc then (cmd_checkdoc and
"$(call cmd,checkdoc)")?

johannes