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Date:	Mon, 04 Aug 2014 15:52:17 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Adrian Remonda <adrianremonda@...il.com>
Cc:	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, Larry.Finger@...inger.net,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8188eu: Lines over 80 characters fixed.

On Tue, 2014-08-05 at 00:45 +0200, Adrian Remonda wrote:
> This is a patch to the hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c file that fixes up a "line
> over 80 characters" warning found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c
> index f25c87c..8be4819 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/hal/rtl8188eu_recv.c
> @@ -41,15 +41,19 @@ int	rtl8188eu_init_recv_priv(struct adapter *padapter)
>  	/* init recv_buf */
>  	_rtw_init_queue(&precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue);
>  
> -	precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf = kzalloc(NR_RECVBUFF * sizeof(struct recv_buf) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
> +	precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf =
> +		kzalloc(NR_RECVBUFF * sizeof(struct recv_buf) + 4, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	if (precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf == NULL) {
>  		res = _FAIL;
> -		RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_recv_c_, _drv_err_, ("alloc recv_buf fail!\n"));
> +		RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_recv_c_, _drv_err_,
> +				("alloc recv_buf fail!\n"));
>  		goto exit;
>  	}
> -	memset(precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf, 0, NR_RECVBUFF * sizeof(struct recv_buf) + 4);
> +	memset(precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf, 0,
> +			NR_RECVBUFF * sizeof(struct recv_buf) + 4);
>  
> -	precvpriv->precv_buf = (u8 *)N_BYTE_ALIGMENT((size_t)(precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf), 4);
> +	precvpriv->precv_buf = (u8 *)N_BYTE_ALIGMENT((size_t)
> +			(precvpriv->pallocated_recv_buf), 4);

Several bits of this are not nice.

the +4 seems senseless.
zalloc followed by a memset(,0,) is senseless.
N_BYTE_ALIGNMENT seems senseless as alloc is
suitable for any alignmet.

btw: The merge window is open, please be patient
with any staging patch during the merge window.

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