Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] staging: iio: ad9850.c: fix checkpatch.pl error

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On Sat, Jun 28, 2014 at 05:10:46AM +0200, Guillaume Morin wrote:
> On 27 Jun 22:37, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > Put that below the --- line.
> 
> Will do.
> 
> > > > And what checkpatch error did you fix?  And are you sure it needs to be
> > > > fixed?
> > > 
> > > That's what I changed:
> > > 
> > > $ scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/iio/frequency/ad9850.c
> > > ERROR: Macros with complex values should be enclosed in parenthesis
> > 
> > Then why didn't you say that :)
> 
> Well it was not totally clear to me if that was obvious or not.  Anyway,
> I'll mention it in the future.
> 
> > 
> > > I assumed that if it was reported as an error, it needed to be fixed...
> > 
> > Use your judgement, checkpatch is a tool, it isn't always correct.
> 
> Right, I guess it's borderline.  Should I resend the patch or just drop
> it?

These days we have GENMASK.
 
http://lxr.free-electrons.com/source/include/linux/bitops.h#L21
 
Maybe the macro can be used directly instead of the value_mask.

> 
> Guillaume.
> 
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