Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: fix check alignment should match open parenthesis

From: Greg KH
Date: Thu Jul 27 2023 - 11:05:26 EST


On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 11:47:23AM -0300, Alexon Oliveira wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 27, 2023 at 10:03:19AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Jul 08, 2023 at 12:55:11AM -0300, Alexon Oliveira wrote:
> > > Adhere to Linux kernel coding style.
> > >
> > > Reported by checkpatch:
> > >
> > > CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
> > >
> > > #132: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:132
> > > #135: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:135
> > > #139: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:139
> > > #142: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:142
> > > #144: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:144
> > > #146: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:146
> > > #148: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:148
> > > #152: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:152
> > > #163: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:163
> > > #173: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:173
> > > #175: FILE: drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h:175
> >
> > We don't need all of these lines.
>
> Hi Greg, I hope you're good and these messages find you well.
>
> ACK. I thought it would be good to explain what I changed.
>
> >
> > > Signed-off-by: Alexon Oliveira <alexondunkan@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Please don't indent your signed-off-by line, that should be to the left.
> >
>
> ACK. I didn't indent. This was the output of "git format-patch" I copied and pasted. Next time I'll remove the indentation manually.
>
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h b/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h
> > > index 11df0a5e7f7b..a0d7a8db239d 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h
> > > +++ b/drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h
> > > @@ -128,28 +128,21 @@ struct vme_bridge {
> > > struct mutex irq_mtx;
> > >
> > > /* Slave Functions */
> > > - int (*slave_get)(struct vme_slave_resource *, int *,
> > > - unsigned long long *, unsigned long long *, dma_addr_t *,
> > > - u32 *, u32 *);
> > > - int (*slave_set)(struct vme_slave_resource *, int, unsigned long long,
> > > - unsigned long long, dma_addr_t, u32, u32);
> > > + int (*slave_get)(struct vme_slave_resource *, int *, unsigned long long *,
> > > + unsigned long long *, dma_addr_t *, u32 *, u32 *);
> > > + int (*slave_set)(struct vme_slave_resource *, int, unsigned long long, unsigned long long, dma_addr_t, u32, u32);
> >
> > Did you run your patch through checkpatch.pl after making this change?
>
> Yes, I did it. No more checks about "Alignment should match open parenthesis".
>
> > I think you just added more warnings...
>
> I only focused to solve the checks related to the message above. Nevertheless, there are still other warnings and checks reported by checkpath.pl non-related to this patch (i.e. not caused by this patch) that need to be fixed, but I intend to help to fix them afterwards in a different patch, so I don't send patches with too many changes at once.

You resolved one warning by replacing it with a different one, that's
not good :(

thanks,

greg k-h