linux-kernel - Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: xgifb: correct the multiple line dereference to fix coding stye errors

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Date:   Tue, 21 Feb 2017 10:42:13 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...6.fr>,
        Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@...il.com>
Cc:     arnaud.patard@...-net.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] staging: xgifb: correct the multiple
 line dereference to fix coding stye errors

On Tue, 2017-02-21 at 18:40 +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 21 Feb 2017, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> 
> > Error was reported by checkpatch.pl as
> > WARNING: Avoid multiple line dereference...
> > if there is boolean operator then it is fixed by Splitting line at
> > boolean operator.
> 
> This is massively execeeding the 80 character boundary, and not for
> something trivial like a string.  Maybe the code can be reorganized in
> some other way.

The easiest way to do that is to change the test above it
to reduce indentation from

	if (xgifb_info->display2 == XGIFB_DISP_TV &&
	    xgifb_info->hasVB == HASVB_301) {
		[code...];
	}
}

to

	if (xgifb_info->display2 != XGIFB_DISP_TV ||
	    xgifb_in
fo->hasVB != HASVB_301)
		return;

	[code...];
}