netdev - Re: [PATCH 3/3] greybus: gb-beagleplay: Add firmware upload API

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Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2024 14:40:07 +0530
From: Hariprasad Kelam <hkelam@...vell.com>
To: Alex Elder <elder@...e.org>
CC: Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>, Ayush Singh <ayush@...gleboard.org>,
        <jkridner@...gleboard.org>, <robertcnelson@...gleboard.org>,
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        Alex Elder <elder@...nel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] greybus: gb-beagleplay: Add firmware upload API

On 2024-07-20 at 03:09:55, Alex Elder (elder@...e.org) wrote:
> On 7/19/24 2:15 PM, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> > > >   drivers/greybus/Kconfig         |   1 +
> > > >   drivers/greybus/gb-beagleplay.c | 625 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> > 
> > > > +static u8 csum8(const u8 *data, size_t size, u8 base)
> > > > +{
> > > > +	size_t i;
> > > > +	u8 sum = base;
> > > follow reverse x-mas tree
> > 
> > Since this is not networking, even thought it was posted to the netdev
> > list, this comment might not be correct. I had a quick look at some
> > greybus code and reverse x-mas tree is not strictly used.
> > 
> > Please see what the Graybus Maintainers say.
> 
> Andrew is correct.  The Greybus code does not strictly follow
> the "reverse christmas tree" convention, so there is no need
> to do that here.  Please understand that, while checkpatch.pl
> offers good and well-intentioned advice, not everything it
> warns about must be fixed, and in some cases it suggests things
> certain maintainers don't agree with.
> 
> 					-Alex
> 
> > 	Andrew
> 
> Ok got it.