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

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Message-ID: <86a6a0xh7v.fsf@davidreaver.com>
Date:   Sat, 25 Jun 2022 19:52:01 -0700
From:   David Reaver <me@...idreaver.com>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        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


Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> writes:

> 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.

Thanks for taking a look Joe! That makes sense. I'm new to the kernel
and running checkpath.pl on staging drivers was suggested as a good
place to start contributing, but I'll keep a more careful eye out next
time and not follow checkpath blindly.