Re: [PATCH 1/6] staging: lustre: lustre: resolve "use spaces between elements" checkpatch errors

[James Simmons]

> On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 11:01 -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> > Due to the way the DFID was embedded in our debug strings checkpatch
> > would report the following error:
> 
> unrelated trivia
> 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_user.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_user.h
> []
> > @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static inline void obd_uuid2fsname(char *buf, char *uuid, int buflen)
> >  #define FID_NOBRACE_LEN 40
> >  #define FID_LEN (FID_NOBRACE_LEN + 2)
> >  #define DFID_NOBRACE "%#llx:0x%x:0x%x"
> 
> It's odd to use a mixture of %#x and 0x%x.
> 
> Using
> 	#define DFID_NOBRACE "%#llx:%#x:%#x"
> would also save a couple bytes per use.

Changing that format would break things very badly. This is used in user 
land utilities and the kernel code. 
 
> Does there need to be a difference between an SFID
> and a DFID_NOBRACE?