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Date:   Thu, 6 Apr 2023 16:57:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Sumitra Sharma <sumitraartsy@gmail.com>
Cc:     Simon Horman <simon.horman@corigine.com>,
        Manish Chopra <manishc@marvell.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: qlge: Remove macro FILL_SEG
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On Thu, Apr 06, 2023 at 07:46:44AM -0700, Sumitra Sharma wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 06:21:57PM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 05, 2023 at 08:06:27AM -0700, Sumitra Sharma wrote:
> > > Remove macro FILL_SEG to fix the checkpatch warning:
> > > 
> > > WARNING: Macros with flow control statements should be avoided
> > > 
> > > Macros with flow control statements must be avoided as they
> > > break the flow of the calling function and make it harder to
> > > test the code.
> > > 
> > > Replace all FILL_SEG() macro calls with:
> > > 
> > > err = err || qlge_fill_seg_(...);
> > 
> > Perhaps I'm missing the point here.
> > But won't this lead to err always either being true or false (1 or 0).
> > Rather than the current arrangement where err can be
> > either 0 or a negative error value, such as -EINVAL.
> >
> 
> Hi Simon
> 
> 
> Thank you for the point you mentioned which I missed while working on this
> patch. 
> 
> However, after thinking on it, I am still not able to get any fix to this
> except that we can possibly implement the Ira's solution here which is:
> 
> https://lore.kernel.org/outreachy/64154d438f0c8_28ae5229421@iweiny-mobl.notmuch/
> 
> Although we have to then deal with 40 lines of ifs.

Which implies that the current solution is the best one, so I would
recommend just leaving it as-is.

Remember, checkpatch.pl is a tool to provide hints, it does not have
much context, if any, to determine if it's hints actually make sense.

thanks,

greg k-h