Re: [PATCH v4] Staging: octeon: Fix line ending with '('

[Julia Lawall]

On Fri, 17 Mar 2023, Sumitra Sharma wrote:

> On Fri, Mar 17, 2023 at 07:03:08AM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Thu, 16 Mar 2023, Sumitra Sharma wrote:
> >
> > > Since the coding style limited the code to 80 columns per line which caused
> > > splitting the function header into two lines resulted in the first line
> > > ending with a '('. This caused the checkpatch error.
> >
> > The first sentence is still not really grammatical.  Something like:
> >
> > The coding style used to limit lines to 80 characters, which led to
> > splitting this function header into multiple lines, and ending thie first
> > line with a (.
> >
> > For checkpatch, is it an error or a warning?
> >
>
> HI julia,
>
> Yes, you are correct, I did the mistake its not the error but a check.
>
> How about this...
>
> ###
> The coding style used to limit lines to 80 characters, which led to splitting
> this function header into multiple lines and ending the first line with a '('.
> This split causes a check reported by the checkpatch.
>
> Place the function parameters immediately after '(' in a single line to
> align the function header.
> ###

Looks better.

thanks,
julia

>
>
> Thank you for your reviews.
>
> Regards,
> Sumitra
>
> > julia
> >
> > >
> > > Place the function parameters immediately after '(' in a single
> > > line to align the function header.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Sumitra Sharma <sumitraartsy@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > > v2: Change patch subject and description
> > >
> > > v3: Change patch description, noted by Deepak R Varma
> > > <drv@xxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > v4: Correct grammartical mistakes, noted by Julia Lawall
> > > <julia.lawall@xxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h | 4 +---
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h b/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> > > index 7a02e59e283f..3e7b92cd2e35 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon/octeon-stubs.h
> > > @@ -1372,9 +1372,7 @@ static inline void cvmx_fau_async_fetch_and_add32(uint64_t scraddr,
> > >  						  int32_t value)
> > >  { }
> > >
> > > -static inline union cvmx_gmxx_rxx_rx_inbnd cvmx_spi4000_check_speed(
> > > -	int interface,
> > > -	int port)
> > > +static inline union cvmx_gmxx_rxx_rx_inbnd cvmx_spi4000_check_speed(int interface, int port)
> > >  {
> > >  	union cvmx_gmxx_rxx_rx_inbnd r;
> > >
> > > --
> > > 2.25.1
> > >
> > >
> > >
>