we currently get: WARNING: Argument 'name' is not used in function-like macro on: #define DRM_CLASSMAP_USE(name) /* nothing here */
Following this advice is wrong here, and shouldn't be fixed by ignoring args altogether; the macro should properly fail if invoked with 0 or 2+ args. cc: Andy Whitcroft <a...@canonical.com> cc: Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> cc: Dwaipayan Ray <dwaipayanr...@gmail.com> cc: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulw...@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cro...@gmail.com> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/checkpatch.pl b/scripts/checkpatch.pl index 7b28ad331742..0c4f578ea6e7 100755 --- a/scripts/checkpatch.pl +++ b/scripts/checkpatch.pl @@ -6037,7 +6037,7 @@ sub process { } # check if this is an unused argument - if ($define_stmt !~ /\b$arg\b/) { + if ($define_stmt !~ /\b$arg\b/ && $define_stmt) { WARN("MACRO_ARG_UNUSED", "Argument '$arg' is not used in function-like macro\n" . "$herectx"); } -- 2.49.0