linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 69/78] ncr5380: Fix whitespace in comments using regexp

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Message-ID: <1451807668.4334.38.camel@perches.com>
Date:	Sat, 02 Jan 2016 23:54:28 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Finn Thain <fthain@...egraphics.com.au>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <JBottomley@...n.com>,
	"Martin K. Petersen" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
	Michael Schmitz <schmitzmic@...il.com>,
	linux-m68k@...r.kernel.org, linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 69/78] ncr5380: Fix whitespace in comments using
 regexp

On Sun, 2016-01-03 at 16:06 +1100, Finn Thain wrote:
> Hanging indentation was a poor choice for the text inside comments. It
> has been used in the wrong places and done badly elsewhere. There is
> little consistency within any file. One fork of the core driver uses
> tabs for this indentation while the other uses spaces. Better to use
> flush-left alignment throughout.
> 
> This patch is the result of the following substitution. It replaces tabs
> and spaces at the start of a comment line with a single space.
> 
> perl -i -pe 's,^(\t*[/ ]\*)[ \t]+,$1 ,' drivers/scsi/{atari_,}NCR5380.c 
> 
> This removes some unimportant discrepancies between the two core driver
> forks so that the important ones become obvious, to facilitate
> reunification.

I still think this patch is poor at best and
overall not useful.
@@ -32,15 +32,15 @@
>  /*
>   * Further development / testing that should be done :
>   * 1.  Cleanup the NCR5380_transfer_dma function and DMA operation complete
> - *     code so that everything does the same thing that's done at the
> - *     end of a pseudo-DMA read operation.
> + * code so that everything does the same thing that's done at the
> + * end of a pseudo-DMA read operation.
>   *
>   * 2.  Fix REAL_DMA (interrupt driven, polled works fine) -
> - *     basically, transfer size needs to be reduced by one
> - *     and the last byte read as is done with PSEUDO_DMA.
> + * basically, transfer size needs to be reduced by one
> + * and the last byte read as is done with PSEUDO_DMA.
>   *
>   * 4.  Test SCSI-II tagged queueing (I have no devices which support
> - *      tagged queueing)
> + * tagged queueing)

Numbering 1, 2, then 4 could be improved.

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