Re: [PATCH v2] staging: most: fix line ending with '('

[Randy Dunlap]

Hi--

On 3/22/23 08:01, Khadija Kamran wrote:
> Splitting function header to multiple lines because of 80 characters per
> line limit, results in ending the function call line with '('.
> This leads to CHECK reported by checkpatch.pl

Note that checkpatch is not always correct. It's a simple advisor.

> Move the function parameters right after the '(' in the function call
> line. Align the rest of the parameters to the opening parenthesis.

coding-style.rst does indeed say:

  A very commonly used style
  is to align descendants to a function open parenthesis.

That may be poorly worded. What it is trying to say is to align
the rest of the parameters to the first parameter immediately after
the open parenthesis, like this example from kernel/fork.c:

	stack = __vmalloc_node_range(THREAD_SIZE, THREAD_ALIGN,
				     VMALLOC_START, VMALLOC_END,
				     THREADINFO_GFP & ~__GFP_ACCOUNT,
				     PAGE_KERNEL,
				     0, node, __builtin_return_address(0));


And FTR, I still haven't found anything in coding-style.rst that says that
lines should not end with an open parenthesis.  Did I overlook it?

Thanks.

> Signed-off-by: Khadija Kamran <kamrankhadijadj@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> 
> Changes in v2:
>  - Changed the description
> 
>  drivers/staging/most/dim2/hal.c | 5 ++---
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/most/dim2/hal.c b/drivers/staging/most/dim2/hal.c
> index a5d40b5b138a..6abe3ab2b2cf 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/most/dim2/hal.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/most/dim2/hal.c
> @@ -346,9 +346,8 @@ static void dim2_clear_ctram(void)
>  		dim2_clear_ctr(ctr_addr);
>  }
> 
> -static void dim2_configure_channel(
> -	u8 ch_addr, u8 type, u8 is_tx, u16 dbr_address, u16 hw_buffer_size,
> -	u16 packet_length)
> +static void dim2_configure_channel(u8 ch_addr, u8 type, u8 is_tx, u16 dbr_address,
> +				   u16 hw_buffer_size, u16 packet_length)
>  {
>  	dim2_configure_cdt(ch_addr, dbr_address, hw_buffer_size, packet_length);
>  	dim2_configure_cat(MLB_CAT, ch_addr, type, is_tx ? 1 : 0);
> --
> 2.34.1
> 

-- 
~Randy