netdev - Re: rfc: checkpatch logical line continuations (was IBM Akebono: Add support for a new PHY interface to the IBM emac driver)

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Message-ID: <20140307230420.GH29018@mwanda>
Date:	Sat, 8 Mar 2014 02:04:21 +0300
From:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
To:	josh@...htriplett.org
Cc:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>, David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
	alistair@...ple.id.au, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Dan Carpenter <error27@...il.com>,
	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: rfc: checkpatch logical line continuations (was IBM Akebono: Add
 support for a new PHY interface to the IBM emac driver)

On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:30:17PM -0800, josh@...htriplett.org wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 07, 2014 at 01:02:44PM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2014-03-07 at 15:41 -0500, David Miller wrote:
> > > From: Alistair Popple <alistair@...ple.id.au>
> > > Date: Thu,  6 Mar 2014 14:52:25 +1100
> > > 
> > > > +	out_be32(dev->reg, in_be32(dev->reg) | WKUP_ETH_RGMIIEN
> > > > +		 | WKUP_ETH_TX_OE | WKUP_ETH_RX_IE);
> > > 
> > > When an expression spans multiple lines, the lines should end with
> > > operators rather than begin with them.
> > 
> > That's not in CodingStyle currently.
> 
> It's also not even remotely consistent across existing kernel code, and
> it isn't obvious that there's a general developer consensus on the
> "right" way to write it.
> 

We just had this discussion in staging and Greg modified the patch to
put the operator at the end.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/25/125

It's like logical && and || operators which go at the end these days.
I don't really want to have a lot of checkpatch churn to convert
everything...

regards,
dan carpenter

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