Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: omap-thermal: Correct checkpatch.pl warnings

[Valentin, Eduardo]

Hello Dan,

On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Dan Carpenter
<dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:11:27AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:06:52PM +0300, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
>> > From: J Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>
>> >
>> > Removes checkpatch warnings on omap-bandgap.c.
>> >
>>
>> Which checkpatch.pl warnings?
>>
>> > +                           omap_bandgap_writel(bg_ptr,
>> > +                                   rval->tshut_threshold,
>> > +                                              tsr->tshut_threshold);
>>
>> That's just whacky.
>>
>> Personally, I've never cared much about long lines, so I'd prefer
>> to leave these as is until someone can break the functions up and
>> remove them in a proper way instead of just shifting everything
>> randomly to the left.
>>
>
> Sorry, that was my default response without looking at the code.
>
> This is already broken up into small functions pretty nicely.  You
> might want to consider using shorter names.  For example
> omap_bandgap_writel() could be changed to "obg_writel()" and "bg_ptr"
> could be changed to just "bg" because it's obviously a pointer.

Yeah, that's one option. Of course the deal is to find the proper
balance between cryptic symbol names and code mangled / shifted to the
left.

>
> regards,
> dan carpenter



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Eduardo Valentin
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