linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/4] iio: adc: xilinx: Rename 'channels' variable name to 'iio_xadc

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Message-ID: <070dda6dd3b140ef5f6dbc965d7f8c1af934ec96.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 21 Jul 2018 09:22:05 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:     Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@...afoo.de>,
        Manish Narani <manish.narani@...inx.com>, knaack.h@....de,
        pmeerw@...erw.net, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        anirudh@...inx.com, sgoud@...inx.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] iio: adc: xilinx: Rename 'channels' variable name
 to 'iio_xadc_channels'

On Sat, 2018-07-21 at 17:18 +0100, Jonathan Cameron wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jul 2018 10:22:07 +0200
> Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com> wrote:
> 
> > On 18.7.2018 13:18, Lars-Peter Clausen wrote:
> > > On 07/18/2018 01:12 PM, Manish Narani wrote:  
> > > > This patch fix the following checkpatch warning in xadc driver.
> > > > - Reusing the krealloc arg is almost always a bug.
> > > > 
> > > > Renamed the 'channels' variable as 'iio_xadc_channels' to fix the above
> > > > warning.
> > > >  
> > > 
> > > This is a bug in checkpatch and should be fixed in checkpatch. The code is
> > > not actually re-using the parameter. channels and xadc_channels are
> > > independent variables, just checkpatch somehow does not realize this.  
> > 
> > I think it should be fine to have this patch in tree. Change in commit
> > message to reflect this should be enough. But that's just view.
> 
> Let's wait and see if Joe has time to take a look at this.  Might be better
> to fix checkpatch if it's not too hard!

I submitted a proposed patch.
I believe it works.

https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10533011/