linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fixed the coding style, labels should not be indented.

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Message-ID: <CAKzJ-FPZeM1QettgDyNaXy4xXpXX0YVm1TNVaKHOopiYevALjA@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 2 Jun 2021 20:09:27 +0530
From:   Manikishan Ghantasala <manikishanghantasala@...il.com>
To:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>, Rui Miguel Silva <rmfrfs@...il.com>,
        Johan Hovold <johan@...nel.org>, Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>,
        greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: fixed the coding style, labels should
 not be indented.

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the clarification.
Regards,
Manikishan Ghantasala

On Wed, 2 Jun 2021 at 20:07, Greg Kroah-Hartman
<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Jun 02, 2021 at 07:57:35PM +0530, Manikishan Ghantasala wrote:
> > Sending this mail again as I missed to reply to all.
> >  Hi Alex,
> >
> > I agree those are called bit-field member names rather than labels.
> > But the reason I mentioned is because the ./scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > gave out a warning saying "labels should not be indented".
>
> checkpatch is a perl script that does it's best, but does not always get
> it right.  In this case, it is incorrect, the existing code is just
> fine.
>
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h