Re: [PATCH] mxser: use semi-colons instead of commas

From: Joe Perches
Date: Wed Aug 25 2021 - 06:30:09 EST


On Wed, 2021-08-25 at 10:24 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> This code works, but it's cleaner to use semi-colons at the end of
> a statement instead of a comma.

There are still multiple dozens of this type of comma use
in the kernel.

Julia Lawall created a cocci script to convert the commas
to semicolons that worked pretty well.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2008201856110.2524@hadrien/

> diff --git a/drivers/tty/mxser.c b/drivers/tty/mxser.c
[]
> @@ -1039,12 +1039,12 @@ static int mxser_get_serial_info(struct tty_struct *tty,
>   if (closing_wait != ASYNC_CLOSING_WAIT_NONE)
>   closing_wait = jiffies_to_msecs(closing_wait) / 10;
>  
>
> - ss->type = info->type,
> - ss->line = tty->index,
> - ss->port = info->ioaddr,
> - ss->irq = info->board->irq,
> - ss->flags = info->port.flags,
> - ss->baud_base = MXSER_BAUD_BASE,
> + ss->type = info->type;
> + ss->line = tty->index;
> + ss->port = info->ioaddr;
> + ss->irq = info->board->irq;
> + ss->flags = info->port.flags;
> + ss->baud_base = MXSER_BAUD_BASE;
>   ss->close_delay = close_delay;
>   ss->closing_wait = closing_wait;
>   ss->custom_divisor = MXSER_CUSTOM_DIVISOR,