On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 19:59 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2018 at 09:38:26AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > > On Mon, 2018-09-24 at 13:34 +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > > > 3.18-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let me know. > > > > Why should this sort of change be applied to a stable release? > > Originally I was just going to drop this as it's not fixing something. > > But it might be, if that macro is used in a if() statement, or something > like that, it could be doing something unintended. No it couldn't. An empty macro is equivalent to a single statement. > So I don't feel like auditing all 500+ instances where this is used, > it's easier to just accept the patch. It's not a bug fix.