As indicated in commit 2e90ca6 ("floppy: check FDC index for errors before assigning it") there are some surprising effects in the floppy driver due to some macros referencing global or local variables while at first glance being inoffensive. This patchset aims at removing these macros and replacing all of their occurrences by the equivalent code. Most of the work was done under Coccinelle's assistance, and it was verified that the resulting binary code is exactly the same as the original one. The aim is not to make the driver prettier, as Linus mentioned it's already not pretty. It only aims at making potential bugs more visible, given almost all latest changes to this driver were fixes for out-of- bounds and similar bugs. As a side effect, some lines got longer, causing checkpatch to complain a bit, but I preferred to let it complain as I didn't want to break them apart as I'm already seeing the trap of going too far here. The patches are broken by macro (or sets of macros when relevant) so that each of them remains reviewable. I can possibly go a bit further in the cleanup but I haven't used floppies for a few years now and am not interested in doing too much on this driver by lack of use cases. Willy Tarreau (10): floppy: cleanup: expand macro FDCS floppy: cleanup: expand macro UFDCS floppy: cleanup: expand macro UDP floppy: cleanup: expand macro UDRS floppy: cleanup: expand macro UDRWE floppy: cleanup: expand macro DP floppy: cleanup: expand macro DRS floppy: cleanup: expand macro DRWE floppy: cleanup: expand the R/W / format command macros floppy: cleanup: expand the reply_buffer macros drivers/block/floppy.c | 971 +++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------ 1 file changed, 499 insertions(+), 472 deletions(-) -- 2.9.0