linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: nvec: nvec: fixed check style issues

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Date:   Sun, 16 Dec 2018 09:47:23 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Amir Mahdi Ghorbanian <indigoomega021@...il.com>, marvin24@....de
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, ac100@...ts.launchpad.net,
        linux-tegra@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: nvec: nvec: fixed check style issues

On Sun, 2018-12-16 at 08:57 -0800, Amir Mahdi Ghorbanian wrote:
> Fixed an endline open parenthesis issue and replaced udelay() by the
> preferred usleep_range() function.

Not all checkpatch bleats need to be fixed.

Function names with 40+ character length identifiers makes
fitting within an 80 column limit nearly impossible.

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c b/drivers/staging/nvec/nvec.c
[]
> @@ -382,8 +382,10 @@ static void nvec_request_master(struct work_struct *work)
>  		msg = list_first_entry(&nvec->tx_data, struct nvec_msg, node);
>  		spin_unlock_irqrestore(&nvec->tx_lock, flags);
>  		nvec_gpio_set_value(nvec, 0);
> -		err = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(
> -				&nvec->ec_transfer, msecs_to_jiffies(5000));
> +		done = &nvec->ec_transfer;
> +		timeout = msecs_to_jiffies(5000);
> +		err = wait_for_completion_interruptible_timeout(done,
> +								timeout);

This was easier to read without the temporaries.
And where are done and timeout declared?

Please compile your patches before submitting them.