linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] tty: serial: amba-pl011: cleanup driver

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Date:   Thu, 26 Oct 2023 15:38:24 +0200
From:   Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>
To:     Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@...nel.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-serial@...r.kernel.org,
        Gregory CLEMENT <gregory.clement@...tlin.com>,
        Alexandre Belloni <alexandre.belloni@...tlin.com>,
        Thomas Petazzoni <thomas.petazzoni@...tlin.com>,
        Vladimir Kondratiev <vladimir.kondratiev@...ileye.com>,
        Tawfik Bayouk <tawfik.bayouk@...ileye.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] tty: serial: amba-pl011: cleanup driver

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:41 PM Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com> wrote:


> Follow recommandations from:
>
>     $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict --file \
>             drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
>
> It does NOT fix alerts relative to TIOCMBIT which will be dealt with in
> another patch. Fixes following alerts:
>
>     CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
>     CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary after an open brace '{'
>     CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written [...]
>     CHECK: Lines should not end with a '('
>     CHECK: Please don't use multiple blank lines
>     CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum declarations
>     CHECK: Prefer using the BIT macro
>     CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement
>     CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around [...]
>     CHECK: braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement
>     CHECK: spaces preferred around that '/' (ctx:VxV)
>     CHECK: spaces preferred around that '|' (ctx:VxV)
>     ERROR: do not initialise statics to false
>     WARNING: Comparisons should place the constant on the right side of the test
>     WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
>     WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
>     WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_info([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_info(dev, ... then pr_info(...  to printk(KERN_INFO ...
>     WARNING: quoted string split across lines
>
> Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@...tlin.com>

These look harmless enough to me.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...aro.org>

Yours,
Linus Walleij