linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: macb: Fix coding style issues

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Date:	Wed, 9 Mar 2016 17:29:39 +0100
From:	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
To:	Nicolas Ferre <nicolas.ferre@...el.com>,
	Moritz Fischer <moritz.fischer@...us.com>,
	Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>,
	"Cyrille Pitchen" <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Punnaiah Choudary Kalluri <punnaia@...inx.com>
CC:	<netdev@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] net: macb: Fix coding style issues

On 7.3.2016 18:13, Nicolas Ferre wrote:
> Le 07/03/2016 17:17, Moritz Fischer a écrit :
>> Hi Nicolas,
>>
>> this series deals with most of the checkpatch warnings
>> generated for macb. There are two BUG_ON()'s that I didn't touch, yet,
>> that were suggested by checkpatch, that I can address in a follow up
>> commit if needed.
>> Let me know if you want me to split the fixes differently or squash
>> them into one commit.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm not usually fond of this type of patches, but I must admit that this
> series corrects some style issues.
> 
> So, I would like more feedback from Michal and Cyrille as these changes
> may delay some of the not-merged-yet features or more important
> work-in-progress on their side.
> 
> On the other hand, if we all think it's a calm period for this macb
> driver, we may find interesting to merge some "cleanup and style"
> enhancements.

Not a problem with merging cleanups in general. We have several out of
tree patches but doesn't make sense to to wait.
I wasn't in cc for the series but I don't like this change to be the
part of cleanup series.

	mac = of_get_mac_address(np);
 	if (mac)
-		memcpy(bp->dev->dev_addr, mac, ETH_ALEN);
+		ether_addr_copy(bp->dev->dev_addr, mac);
 	else

Also extending scope of variables is not the right way to go. Especially
when some automation tools are reporting that you should reduce scope of
use for them. Wolfram is checking it for example.

Thanks,
Michal