linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: arrays can't be NULL

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Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2016 12:24:57 -0700
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@....samsung.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	johnny.kim@...el.com, austin.shin@...el.com, chris.park@...el.com,
	tony.cho@...el.com, glen.lee@...el.com, leo.kim@...el.com,
	gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: arrays can't be NULL

On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 18:57 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
> hif_drv->usr_scan_req.net.net_info[i] contains found_net_info structs
> which have the following element:
> u8 bssid[6];
[]
> I am aware this patch gives a few checkpatch.pl warnings about lines being
> over 80 characters. Fixing that would be a completely different issue, and
> a lengthy one since the file has loads of them.
> 
> Hopefully somebody else picks that up. Maybe I should send a hit to the
> kernelnewbies mailing list :)

Or not.

really_long_identifiers™ makes using 80 columns silly.

The hungarian could probably be converted though.

A log of the memcpy and memcpy uses could probably be
converted to ether_addr_<foo> too.