linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] regmap: cache: Tidy up the code to suppress style check warnings

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Message-ID: <20151208171235.GV5727@sirena.org.uk>
Date:	Tue, 8 Dec 2015 17:12:35 +0000
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
To:	Xiubo Li <lixiubo@...s.chinamobile.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] regmap: cache: Tidy up the code to suppress style
 check warnings

On Thu, Dec 03, 2015 at 05:31:51PM +0800, Xiubo Li wrote:

> There will be some warning like the following when checking new
> patches near this code:
>     "WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations"
> This patch will suppress this warning.

>  	switch (map->cache_word_size) {
> -	case 1: {
> -		u8 *cache = base;
> -		cache[idx] = val;
> +	case 1:
> +		((u8 *)base)[idx] = val;
>  		break;
> -	}

If there's a change to shut checkpatch up I'd rather just add the blank
line it's asking for - the code is the way it is currently to avoid the
casts since they're hard for people to read.

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