linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix alignment should match open parenthesis

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Message-ID: <a63132e226c2bb7b3f689cb09f7479adea5fe918.camel@perches.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:50:05 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     David Reaver <me@...idreaver.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     dri-devel@...ts.freedesktop.org, linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix alignment should match open
 parenthesis

On Sat, 2022-06-25 at 19:00 -0700, David Reaver wrote:
> Fix alignment of this line of code with the previous parenthesis, as
> suggested by checkpatch.pl:
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tinylcd.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tinylcd.c
[]
> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int init_display(struct fbtft_par *par)
>  	write_reg(par, 0xE5, 0x00);
>  	write_reg(par, 0xF0, 0x36, 0xA5, 0x53);
>  	write_reg(par, 0xE0, 0x00, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
> -		       0x00, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);
> +		  0x00, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);

It's probably better to ignore the message in this case as the first
argument means something and the second and subsequent are the data
being written via a specific macro using NUMARGS.