Re: [PATCH v6 00/15] tty: serial: 8250: Fix checkpatch warnings

From: Andy Shevchenko
Date: Thu Jan 14 2016 - 04:16:43 EST


On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 22:29 +0100, Anton Wuerfel wrote:
> Hello Andy,
>
> > Also, please thin out the Cc list, I would recommend remove just
> > ordinary commiters (with maybe few exceptions) and leave
> > maintainers.Â
> > Moreover some addresses are bounced.
> I thinned out the Cc list and left over only maintainers and major
> contributors to the code.
>
> > Yep!
> > However, you forgot to fix switch-case as well.
> Phillip and me are kind of git magicians. We can make code disappear
> during
> rebase :-) The piece of code was part of a commit, but it never made
> it into
> the final patch file.
> Â
> I hope, there are no major issues with our patch set.

There are comments regarding patch 12, otherwise FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


>
> Regards,
> Anton Wuerfel
> Phillip Raffeck
>
> This patch set fixes several checkpatch warnings in tty/serial/8250.
>
> Patch 1/15:ÂÂAdds missing spaces (mainly to function/macro headers)
> Patch 2/15:ÂÂReplace spaces with tabs wherever possible
> Patch 3/15:ÂÂSlight patch which moves an opening curly brace
> Patch 4/15:ÂÂFixes multiline comment style
> Patch 5/15:ÂÂRemoves else blocks after return statements
> Patch 6/15:ÂÂSlight patch which moves EXPORT_SYMBOL macro to correct
> position
> Patch 7/15:ÂÂSlight patch which removes an unneccessary line
> continuation
> Patch 8/15:ÂÂSlight patch which adds parentheses to a macro
> definition
> Patch 9/15:ÂÂMerges user-visible multiline strings to a single line
> Patch 10/15: Replace printk by dev_* or pr_* where appropriate
> Patch 11/15: Remove orphaned debug macro
> Patch 12/15: Fix warnings in dev_dbg by adding two casts
> Patch 13/15: Fixes code indentation
> Patch 14/15: Add a generic port macro
> Patch 15/15: Refactor a switch/case statement
>
> Remaining checkpatch warnings after applying this patch series:
>
> -line over 80 characters
> This error mostly occurs in serial_cs.c, which contains long-
> lined
> macro calls. However, splitting these calls into multiple lines
> would
> not increase readability.
>
> -externs should be avoided in .c files
> This occurs in 8250_hp300.c. There is no corresponding header
> file
> the extern statement could be moved to. It could be moved to
> 8250.h
> but this would affect other .c files.
>
> -Use #include <linux/*.h> instead of <asm/*.h>
> This warning has been left open for more experienced kernel
> hackers.
> This patch series is about style issues. We do not intend to
> alter
> the code behavior.
> -struct uart_ops should normally be const
> This warning only occurs in 8250_core.c. The corresponding
> struct
> cannot be declared as const because it is altered in
> serial8250_isa_init_ports(). Maybe a checkpatch exception
> should
> be added for this particular warning.
>
> -quoted string split across lines
> These strings were ignored because they otherwise would exceed
> 80 characters in a single line. These particular strings use
> format specifiers, which break the ability to grep for them
> anyway.
>
> Anton Wuerfel (15):
> Phillip Raffeck (15):
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Fix whitespace errors
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Replace spaces with tabs
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Fix braces after struct
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Fix multiline comment style
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Remove else after return
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL to function
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Fix line continuation warning
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Add parentheses to macro
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Fix multi-line strings
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Correct conversion specifiers
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Merge duplicate conditions
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Fix indentation warnings
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Add generic port init macro
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Suitably replace printk
> Â tty: serial: 8250: Remove SERIAL_DEBUG_PNP macro
>
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.hÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 12 ++++
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_accent.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 13 +---
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_acorn.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|ÂÂ2 +-
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_boca.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 41 ++++++-------
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 15 ++---
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar_st16c554.c | 17 ++----
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fourport.cÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 28 ++++-----
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|ÂÂ7 ++-
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hp300.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 27 +++++----
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hub6.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ|ÂÂ2 +-
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 12 ++--
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 60 ++++++++++------
> ---
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 28 +++++----
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 47 ++++++++-------
> Âdrivers/tty/serial/8250/serial_cs.cÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂÂ| 90 +++++++++++++++---
> ----------
> Â15 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)
>

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Intel Finland Oy