linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] staging: rtl8192e: Fix coding style

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Message-ID: <20170315111547.GC4136@mwanda>
Date:   Wed, 15 Mar 2017 14:15:47 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:     Suniel Mahesh <sunil.m@...hveda.org>
Cc:     devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, gregkh@...uxfoundation.org,
        karthiknishu@...oo.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/8] staging: rtl8192e: Fix coding style

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 04:39:20PM +0530, Suniel Mahesh wrote:
> On Wednesday 15 March 2017 03:44 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 03:21:51PM +0530, sunil.m@...hveda.org wrote:
> >>@@ -1796,7 +1796,7 @@ static short _rtl92e_alloc_rx_ring(struct net_device *dev)
> >>
> >> 	for (rx_queue_idx = 0; rx_queue_idx < MAX_RX_QUEUE; rx_queue_idx++) {
> >> 		priv->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx] = pci_zalloc_consistent(priv->pdev,
> >>-					      sizeof(*priv->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx]) * priv->rxringcount,
> >>+		sizeof(*priv->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx]) * priv->rxringcount,
> >> 					      &priv->rx_ring_dma[rx_queue_idx]);
> >
> >No, don't do that.  The original was easier to read.  Ignore
> >checkpatch.pl if it gives you bad advice.
> >
> >> 		if (!priv->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx] ||
> >> 		    (unsigned long)priv->rx_ring[rx_queue_idx] & 0xFF) {
> >>@@ -2272,7 +2272,8 @@ static int _rtl92e_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
> >> 	int ret = -1;
> >> 	struct rtllib_device *ieee = priv->rtllib;
> >> 	u32 key[4];
> >>-	const u8 broadcast_addr[ETH_ALEN] = {0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff};
> >>+	const u8 broadcast_addr[ETH_ALEN] = {0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff, 0xff,
> >>+									0xff};
> >
> >Just drop this patch...  The original is better.
> >
> >regards,
> >dan carpenter
> >
> hi, when you say drop this patch, should I send the entire patch set
> as PATCH v4 with this particular patch dropped ?


Just drop [PATCH 2/8]...  Hopefully you can see why the original was
more readable?  We don't really care about checkpatch.pl except as a
tool to make the code more readable to human beings.

regards,
dan carpenter