On Thu, 2025-03-20 at 12:52 -0600, Jim Cromie wrote:
> 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>
Completely sensible, thanks Jim.
> ---
> 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");
> }
