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SubjectRe: [PATCH] potential parse error in ifdef
On Fri, 25 May 2007 13:50:37 +0200 (CEST) Jiri Kosina <jikos@jikos.cz> wrote:

> On Fri, 25 May 2007, Yoann Padioleau wrote:
>
> > I have made a tool to parse the kernel that does not pre-process the
> > source. That means that my parser tries to parse all the code, including
> > code in the #else branch or code that is not often compiled because
> > the driver is not very used (or not used at all). So, my parser
> > sometimes reports parse error not originally detected by gcc.
> > Here is my (first) patch.
> > drivers/char/watchdog/ixp2000_wdt.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/mtd/devices/pmc551.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/mtd/nand/autcpu12.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/mtd/nand/ppchameleonevb.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/net/amd8111e.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/net/skfp/smt.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/scsi/aic7xxx/aic79xx_core.c | 2 +-
> > sound/arm/sa11xx-uda1341.c | 2 +-
> > 8 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)
>
> As these are totally independent fixes across various subsystems, you
> should probably split the patch into per-subsystem patches and submit them
> separately.

That's normally true, yes. But for a bunch of obviously-better one-line
fixes in code which nobody has even compiled in ages, I think we can bend
the rules a bit and just slam it in.

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