Re: [patch] staging: r8821ae: a couple macro expansion bugs

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On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 05:46:30PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:14:21PM +0100, walter harms wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Am 28.01.2014 15:00, schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > > These macros need parentheses, otherwise it causes a macro expansion bug
> > > when they are used like this:
> > > 
> > > 	ch->flags &= ~IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS;
> > > 
> > > This was found using Smatch:
> > > drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.c:200 _rtl_reg_apply_beaconing_flags()
> > > 	warn: the 'IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS' macro might need parens
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.h b/drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.h
> > > index abc60ab8165c..dceb3f18200b 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8821ae/regd.h
> > > @@ -30,8 +30,8 @@
> > >  #ifndef __RTL_REGD_H__
> > >  #define __RTL_REGD_H__
> > >  
> > > -#define IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS		1<<2
> > > -#define IEEE80211_CHAN_PASSIVE_SCAN	1<<1
> > > +#define IEEE80211_CHAN_NO_IBSS		(1 << 2)
> > > +#define IEEE80211_CHAN_PASSIVE_SCAN	(1 << 1)
> > >  #define WIPHY_FLAG_CUSTOM_REGULATORY	BIT(0)
> > >  #define WIPHY_FLAG_STRICT_REGULATORY	BIT(1)
> > >  #define WIPHY_FLAG_DISABLE_BEACON_HINTS	BIT(2)
> > > --
> > 
> > 
> > just one minor hint ...
> > could we settle for a common semantic here either 1<<2 or BIT(2) ?
> > 
> 
> Yeah...  This driver needs a lot of cleanup in later patches.

That will happen soon, for 3.15, in the netdev tree, but for 3.14 we
want this out there as people have the hardware and want to use it (i.e.
me and 1000 others that got the hardware at a recent conference.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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