On Sun, 24 May 2020 19:30:07 +0200 Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> wrote:
> Some compilers raise an error when declaring a variable > in the middle of a function. This is a C99 allowance. > Even if DPDK switches globally to C99 or C11 standard, > the coding rules are for declarations at the beginning > of a block: > http://doc.dpdk.org/guides/contributing/coding_style.html#local-variables > > This coding style is enforced by adding a check of > the common patterns like "for (int i;" > > The occurrences of the checked pattern are fixed: > 'for *(\(char\|u\?int\|unsigned\|s\?size_t\)' > In the file dpaa2_sparser.c, the fix is to remove the unused macros. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Monjalon <tho...@monjalon.net> Surprised that checkpatch doesn't enforce this already. Or maybe kernel flags are different.
