linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: add blank line after struct

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Date:   Sun, 19 Mar 2023 12:36:46 +0100 (CET)
From:   Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@...ia.fr>
To:     Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@...il.com>
cc:     gregkh@...uxfoundation.org, outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
        johan@...nel.org, elder@...nel.org, greybus-dev@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: add blank line after struct



On Sun, 19 Mar 2023, Menna Mahmoud wrote:

>
> On ١٩/٣/٢٠٢٣ ١٣:١٩, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 19 Mar 2023, Menna Mahmoud wrote:
> >
> > > add blank line after struct for readability as
> > The log message should start with a capital letter, so "Add".
>
>
> Okay, I will fix it.
>
> >
> > > reported by checkpatch script
> > "reported by checkpatch" or "reported by the checkpatch script".
> > The first is more concise, and it doesn't really matter whether checkpatch
> > is a script or something else.
>
>
> got it.
>
> > > " CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum
> > > declarations"
> > I guess the #define was concatenated to the end of the definition to show
> > that it is closely related to the definition.  With the #define, it seems
> > rather natural, but the better soltution would be to make a static inline
> > function in both cases.  There would naturally be a blank line before a
> > function definition as well.
>
>
> got your point, so, should i ignore this?

Not sure what you mean by ignore.  If you rewrite the #define as a
function, an use the natural placement for a function definition, then the
checkpatch warning will go away as a side effect.

julia

>
>
> Menna
>
> >
> > julia
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Menna Mahmoud <eng.mennamahmoud.mm@...il.com>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.h | 2 ++
> > >   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.h
> > > b/drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.h
> > > index d4a225b76338..1de510499480 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/greybus/gbphy.h
> > > @@ -15,6 +15,7 @@ struct gbphy_device {
> > >   	struct list_head list;
> > >   	struct device dev;
> > >   };
> > > +
> > >   #define to_gbphy_dev(d) container_of(d, struct gbphy_device, dev)
> > >
> > >   static inline void *gb_gbphy_get_data(struct gbphy_device *gdev)
> > > @@ -43,6 +44,7 @@ struct gbphy_driver {
> > >
> > >   	struct device_driver driver;
> > >   };
> > > +
> > >   #define to_gbphy_driver(d) container_of(d, struct gbphy_driver, driver)
> > >
> > >   int gb_gbphy_register_driver(struct gbphy_driver *driver,
> > > --
> > > 2.34.1
> > >
> > >
> > >
>