Re: [PATCH] staging: fwserial: rearrange comment to avoid warning

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jan 19 2022 - 12:58:22 EST


On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 07:19:24AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi--
>
> On 1/19/22 00:41, Ajith P V wrote:
> > fwserial.h comment contains word "bits" 2 times together.
> > The sentence required this however it produce warning.
> > Change the comment to make it proper.
>
> Is that a warning from checkpatch?

Yeah. You're right.

WARNING: Possible repeated word: 'bits'
#207: FILE: drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.h:207:
+ * bits 15..0 correspond to TIOCM_* bits
^^^^
+ * bits 19..16 reserved for mctrl
^^^^
> If so, it's OK to ignore something like that.
> checkpatch isn't perfect and we know that.

Yep. Checkpatch is not the boss of us.

regards,
dan carpenter