linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 02/11] gpio: davinci: coding style correction

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Message-ID: <518397C60809E147AF5323E0420B992E3EAC7AE8@DBDE04.ent.ti.com>
Date:	Thu, 23 May 2013 06:27:09 +0000
From:	"Philip, Avinash" <avinashphilip@...com>
To:	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC:	"Nori, Sekhar" <nsekhar@...com>,
	"khilman@...prootsystems.com" <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
	"grant.likely@...retlab.ca" <grant.likely@...retlab.ca>,
	"linus.walleij@...aro.org" <linus.walleij@...aro.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com" 
	<davinci-linux-open-source@...ux.davincidsp.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [PATCH 02/11] gpio: davinci: coding style correction

On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 20:10:42, Russell King - ARM Linux wrote:
> On Wed, May 22, 2013 at 12:40:25PM +0530, Philip Avinash wrote:
> >  /*
> >   * Assuming the pin is muxed as a gpio output, set its output value.
> >   */
> > -static void
> > -davinci_gpio_set(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset, int value)
> > +static void davinci_gpio_set(struct gpio_chip *chip, unsigned offset,
> > +		int value)
> 
> This kind of stuff is just churn.  If you read Documentation/CodingStyle:
> 
> Statements longer than 80 columns will be broken into sensible chunks, unless
> exceeding 80 columns significantly increases readability and does not hide
> information. Descendants are always substantially shorter than the parent and
> are placed substantially to the right. The same applies to function headers
> with a long argument list. However, never break user-visible strings such as
> printk messages, because that breaks the ability to grep for them.
> 
> "broken into sensible chunks".  Here's the question: is the former a
> sensible format?  Arguably it is because it results in all the arguments
> fitting on one line at the expense of missing the return value.
> 
> The latter is also a sensible format - but breaks the arguments instead
> of the return value.
> 
> Both formats can be found in their entirety by grep by function name alone:
> 
> 	grep -1 davinci_gpio_set
> 
> or if you prefer to type some more then you end up with more specific
> 
> 	grep -A1 davinci_gpio_set
> or
> 	grep -B1 davinci_gpio_set
> 
> depending on the version.
> 
> Where there's no clear advantage one way or the other, let the authors
> preference stand.

Ok I understood and I will remove these changes in next version.

Thanks
Avinash

> 

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