linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] STAGING - REALTEK RTL8188EU DRIVERS: Fix Coding Style Error

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Date:   Sat, 25 Jul 2020 13:49:19 -0500
From:   Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam@...il.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Anoop S <anoop.skumar1507@...il.com>,
        Michael Straube <straube.linux@...il.com>,
        Merwin Trever Ferrao <merwintf@...il.com>,
        Rahul Gottipati <rahul.blr97@...il.com>,
        devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] STAGING - REALTEK RTL8188EU DRIVERS: Fix Coding Style
 Error

On 7/25/20 1:39 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-07-25 at 12:47 -0500, Larry Finger wrote:
>> On 7/25/20 7:20 AM, Anant Thazhemadam wrote:
>>> Running the checkpatch.pl script on the file for which patch was created, the
>>> following error was found to exist.
>>> ERROR: space required after that ',' (ctx:VxV)
>>>
>>> Fixed the above error which was found on line #721 by inserting a blank
>>> space at the appropriate position.
> []
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c
> []
>>> @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ u32 rtw_tkip_decrypt(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *precvframe)
>>>    				res = _FAIL;
>>>    			}
>>>    		} else {
>>> -			RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_security_c_, _drv_err_, ("%s: stainfo==NULL!!!\n",__func__));
>>> +			RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_security_c_, _drv_err_, ("%s: stainfo==NULL!!!\n", __func__));
>>>    			res = _FAIL;
>>>    		}
>>>    	}
>>
>> In fixing one checkpatch.pl condition, you introduced another - the resulting
>> line is too long. You should fix only one such condition, but you should fix any
>> others that are introduced. You do need to document it.
> 
> I think that doesn't matter as it was also too long
> before this change.
> 
>> Patch subjects for this driver should be written as "staging: rtl8188eu: .....".
> 
> How likely is it that this driver would ever be
> moved to drivers/net/wireless/realtek/rtlwifi?

Very unlikely. It I wanted to undertake that kind of effort, I would switch to 
one of the later versions from Realtek that uses nl80211/cfg80211. Despite that, 
it is likely that only the USB driver from rtlwifi could be used.

Larry