Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: ni_*

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Wed Dec 13 2017 - 07:07:35 EST


On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 05:16:13PM +0530, Aniruddha Shastri wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 4:20 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman
> <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 04:01:04AM -0600, Aniruddha Shastri wrote:
> > > Fix checkpatch warnings by shortening lines and reorganizing code where needed..
> > > Re-phrase the assert messages in ni_mio_common.c. This was done to meet the character limit for the message.
> >
> > And yet this line is over the character length :)
> Aniruddha: Thanks for pointing this out, I'll amend the commit message. :)

Why put your name in the response? Of course I know it's you who is
writing this :)

> > > range_table_list = kmalloc_array(32,
> > > - sizeof(struct comedi_lrange *),
> > > + range_size,
> >
> > Not worth changing.
>
> Aniruddha: The original checkpatch.pl warning instructed to use
> const struct comedi_lrange instead of struct. Adding the 'const' put this
> line over the limit, so that's why I pulled it out into a local variable.

Checkpatch is a "hint", don't always follow it, it can cause some code
to look really bad. It's not a hard-rule.

thanks,

greg k-h