netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211: Various checkpatch.pl fixes

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Date:	Mon, 30 May 2016 10:35:39 +1000
From:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>
To:	Kirtika Ruchandani <kirtika.ruchandani@...il.com>
Cc:	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	ruchandani.tina@...il.com, netdev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] nl80211: Various checkpatch.pl fixes

Hi Kirtika,

On Sun, May 29, 2016 at 1:31 PM, Kirtika Ruchandani
<kirtika.ruchandani@...il.com> wrote:
> This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl issues -

There's too much stuff here to quickly review, it'd be nice if you
could split this up into patches that do the following:

Space issues:
> - space preferred around that <operator>
> - no space needed after cast.
> - Alignment should match open parenthesis
> - suspect code indent for conditional statements
> - Statements should start on a tabstop

Braces:
> - braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement

Multiple assignments:
> - multiple assignments should be avoided

ether_addr_copy:
> - prefer ether_addr_copy over memcpy

Spelling:
> - correct spelling - 'implementation'

NULL comparisons:
> - comparison to NULL could be written as !foo

kcalloc vs kzalloc:
> - prefer kcalloc over kzalloc with multiply

Thanks,

-- 
Julian Calaby

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