linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging : android : fix checkpatch issues

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Date:	Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:52:54 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	DaeSeok Youn <daeseok.youn@...il.com>
Cc:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>, ohaugan@...eaurora.org,
	Rom Lemarchand <romlem@...gle.com>,
	devel <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	konkers <konkers@...roid.com>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, ccross@...roid.com,
	Rebecca Zavin <rebecca@...roid.com>, prtvar.b@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging : android : fix checkpatch issues

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 07:23:46PM +0900, DaeSeok Youn wrote:
> Thanks for reviewing.
> 
> Yes, I just followed by reports of checkpatch.pl.
> 
> But I don't understand why I can use of seq_puts() in the middle of
> seq_printf() calls.
> I have been trying to search why that is not good but I didn't find
> anything about that.
> And I saw patches which were already merged similar with this patch.
> 
> You can see with this url
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2d219c518882d2b2bac77742a6a8979c9dad051a
> https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/commit/7aff38176e79a22b1749c2af74060028298e6a45
> 
> If you don't mind, let me know why it is not good.

Because it doesn't look nice.  It messes up the alignment.

Checkpatch is a tool not a king of the world.  Stop obeying checkpatch.

regards,
dan carpenter

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