linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/15] staging: wlang-ng: fix line style warnings in prism2sta.c

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Date:   Mon, 3 Oct 2016 20:12:09 +0200
From:   Sergio Paracuellos <sergio.paracuellos@...il.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] staging: wlang-ng: fix line style warnings in
 prism2sta.c



El 2016年10月03日 a las 18:16, Joe Perches escribió:
> On Mon, 2016-10-03 at 18:04 +0200, Sergio Paracuellos wrote:
>> This patch fix the following checkpatch.pl warnings in prism2sta.c:
>> WARNING: line over 80 characters
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2sta.c
> []
>> @@ -1099,7 +1101,8 @@ static void prism2sta_inf_hostscanresults(struct wlandevice *wlandev,
>>
>>   	kfree(hw->scanresults);
>>
>> -	hw->scanresults = kmemdup(inf, sizeof(struct hfa384x_InfFrame), GFP_ATOMIC);
>> +	hw->scanresults = kmemdup(inf,
>> +				  sizeof(struct hfa384x_InfFrame), GFP_ATOMIC);
>
> Perhaps better as
>
> 	hw->scanresults = kmemdup(inf, sizeof(*inf), GFP_ATOMIC);
>

I agree. But because all the code is full of sizeof(struct xxx) I though 
it would be better to follow the actual style and not change only one...

I don't have any problem in fix this patch and resend it. What should I do?

Cheers,
	Sergio Paracuellos