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Date:	Wed, 02 Nov 2011 04:54:55 +0200
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
Cc:	Paul Bolle <pebolle@...cali.nl>, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
	Ciaran McCormick <ciaranmccormick@...il.com>, gregkh@...e.de,
	shemminger@...tta.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Stageing: bcm: fixed spacing coding style in
 led_control.c

On Tue, 2011-11-01 at 23:22 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> You're right that this driver needs a lot of work.
[]
> I'd prefer a series of patches:

Thanks Dan, that's a good summary of useful changes
and their best order.  Couple of comments:

> [patch 1/3] Staging: bcm: fix whitespace in led_control.c
> This would address tabs vs spaces, extra prohibited spaces, and
> spaces required around certain chars.  Also it would add blank lines
> between functions and between declarations and code.

And verify with git diff -w and object diffs.

> [patch 2/3] Staging: bcm: fix C99 comments in led_control.c
> This would fix the 74 ERROR: do not use C99 // comments
> 
> [patch 3/3] Staging: bcm: fix braces style in led_control.c
> This would fix the 70 ERROR: that open brace { should be on the
> previous line.

I'd combine this whitespace change with 1/x myself.

> [patch 1/y] Staging: bcm: Rename "Status" to "ret" in led_control.c
> [patch 2/y] Staging: bcm: Rename CamelCase variables in led_control.c

Dan's rename_review script can help verify this as well.
https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/7/19/196

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