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

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Date:	Fri, 24 Jun 2016 00:50:20 +0100
From:	Luis de Bethencourt <luisbg@....samsung.com>
To:	Julian Calaby <julian.calaby@...il.com>,
	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
CC:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Johnny Kim <johnny.kim@...el.com>,
	Austin Shin <austin.shin@...el.com>,
	Chris Park <chris.park@...el.com>,
	Tony Cho <tony.cho@...el.com>, Glen Lee <glen.lee@...el.com>,
	Leo Kim <leo.kim@...el.com>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	linux-wireless <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
	"devel@...verdev.osuosl.org" <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: arrays can't be NULL

On 24/06/16 00:15, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> The main developers of this driver are slowly working through the
> driver's style issues, which is part of the reason why it's in
> staging.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

I understand Julian,

All the maintainers listed in the MAINTAINERS file are in CC. I will wait for
them to OK the suggestion of sending a patch fixing the Hungarian Notation.

Didn't mean to step on your toes. I just wanted to help.

Code in staging is cared for by a lot of people :)

Luis