Re: [PATCH] drivers:staging:wlan-ng Correct multiple line dereference

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jul 28 2017 - 06:34:33 EST


On Fri, 2017-07-28 at 15:33 +0530, janani-sankarababu wrote:
> This patch fixes multiple line dereference Warning reported by checkpath script. This has been made to simplify the code and make it more readable.

Please wrap your commit messages to 75 characters per line.

And run your suggested patches though checkpatch too.

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
[]
> @@ -1345,15 +1345,13 @@ static int hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(struct hfa384x *hw,
> kfree(ctlx);
> } else if (mode == DOWAIT) {
> struct usbctlx_cmd_completor completor;
> + struct usbctlx_completor *cmplt;
> +
> + cmplt = init_cmd_completor(&completor, &ctlx->inbuf.cmdresp,
> + &cmd->result);
>
> result =
> - hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(hw, ctlx,
> - init_cmd_completor(&completor,
> - &ctlx->
> - inbuf.
> - cmdresp,
> - &cmd->
> - result));
> + hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(hw, ctlx, cmplt);

This should now be a single line

result = hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(hw, ctlx, cmplt);