linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8712: Fix Alignment of open parenthesis

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Message-ID: <25960b2a5dfe3f5f2c6579ef718f90a139ba84d7.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Fri, 25 Oct 2019 18:50:25 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Cristiane Naves <cristianenavescardoso09@...il.com>,
        outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com
Cc:     Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Florian Schilhabel <florian.c.schilhabel@...glemail.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8712: Fix Alignment of open
 parenthesis

On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 22:09 -0300, Cristiane Naves wrote:
> Fix alignment should match open parenthesis.Issue found by checkpatch.

Beyond doing style cleanups, please always try
to make the code more readable.

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
[]
> @@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ void r8712_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv *precvpriv,
>  		precvbuf->ref_cnt = 0;
>  		precvbuf->adapter = padapter;
>  		list_add_tail(&precvbuf->list,
> -				 &(precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue.queue));
> +			      &(precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue.queue));

Please remove the unnecessary parentheses too

>  		precvbuf++;
>  	}
>  	precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue_cnt = NR_RECVBUFF;
>  	tasklet_init(&precvpriv->recv_tasklet,
> -	     (void(*)(unsigned long))recv_tasklet,
> -	     (unsigned long)padapter);
> +		     (void(*)(unsigned long))recv_tasklet,
> +		     (unsigned long)padapter);

It's probably better to change the recv_tasklet function
declaration to
use the more common style of

static void recv_tasklet(unsigned long priv)

and do the cast in the recv_tasklet function.