Re: [RFC PATCH 1/8] drm: exynos/dp: fix code style

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Aug 06 2015 - 11:05:46 EST


On Thu, 2015-08-06 at 09:04 -0500, Yakir Yang wrote:
> make checkpatch.pl script happy

That should not be the primary reason to submit a patch.

Making it easier for human code reader to understand
what the code does should be though.

> diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_dp_core.c b/drivers/gpu/drm/exynos/exynos_dp_core.c
[]
> @@ -123,10 +123,11 @@ static int exynos_dp_read_edid(struct exynos_dp_device *dp)
> dev_dbg(dp->dev, "EDID data includes a single extension!\n");
>
> /* Read EDID data */
> - retval = exynos_dp_read_bytes_from_i2c(dp, I2C_EDID_DEVICE_ADDR,
> - EDID_HEADER_PATTERN,
> - EDID_BLOCK_LENGTH,
> - &edid[EDID_HEADER_PATTERN]);
> + retval =
> + exynos_dp_read_bytes_from_i2c(dp, I2C_EDID_DEVICE_ADDR,
> + EDID_HEADER_PATTERN,
> + EDID_BLOCK_LENGTH,
> + &edid[EDID_HEADER_PATTERN]);

This is a relatively uncommon style.

Because the code uses relatively long variable and
function names as well as longish macro #defines,
prefer to ignore the 80 column limit.


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