linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (aquacomputer_d5next) Fix alignment of function call params

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Message-ID: <9d8194bc-34d0-bbe9-825b-2b7635056a10@gmail.com>
Date:   Wed, 12 Apr 2023 07:18:07 +0200
From:   Aleksa Savic <savicaleksa83@...il.com>
To:     Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
Cc:     savicaleksa83@...il.com, linux-hwmon@...r.kernel.org,
        Jack Doan <me@...kdoan.com>, Jean Delvare <jdelvare@...e.com>,
        Leonard Anderweit <leonard.anderweit@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (aquacomputer_d5next) Fix alignment of function
 call params

On 2023-04-11 22:19:21 GMT+02:00, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 08:26:32PM +0200, Aleksa Savic wrote:
>> On 2023-04-10 18:53:08 GMT+02:00, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not sure I understand how this would improve readability.
>>> It seems to accomplish the opposite. Sure, I know, checkpatch --strict
>>> complains, but that is still better than unreadable code just to make
>>> checkpatch happy.
>>>
>>> Guenter
>>
>> Both seemed fine to me, the idea was to fix the checkpatch warning.
>> If it's OK for it to complain about this, plus the changes would make it
>> harder to read, please ignore this patch.
>>
> 
> checkpatch is useful, but not in situations where following its guidance
> results in code which is diffficult to read. I run checkpatch --strict when
> applying patches, so I do notice when it complains. If I want a report
> to be addressed, I'll say that (such as, for example, when people are
> overly generous with empty lines). If not, you can assume that I am ok with
> the report and find it more important to have readable code than being
> checkpatch-clean.
> 
> Guenter

That clears it up, thanks!

Aleksa