Re: [RFC PATCH 09/18] xen: cppcheck: misra rule 20.7 deviation on kconfig.h

[Luca Fancellu]

> On 20 Dec 2022, at 09:48, Jan Beulich <jbeul...@suse.com> wrote:
> 
> On 20.12.2022 09:50, Luca Fancellu wrote:
>> Cppcheck has found a violation of rule 20.7 for the macro
>> __config_enabled but the preprocessor branch where this macro is
>> defined should not be analysed by cppcheck when CPPCHECK macro is
>> defined, hence this is a false positive of the tool and we can
>> safely suppress the finding.
> 
> So what was commit 43aa3f6e72d3's ("xen/build: Add cppcheck and
> cppcheck-html make rules") adjustment to the file about then?

Yes the commit is right, cppcheck itself needs that, the problem here
comes from the misra add-on (the cppcheck component that does the
MISRA analysis) that is wrong.

Anyway I will drop this patch together with all the false-positive on the
Tool for now.

> 
> Jan
>