Re: [PATCH 2/9] usb: vhci-hcd: Fix space, brace, alignment and line length issues

From: Greg Kroah-Hartman
Date: Fri Jul 18 2025 - 02:27:25 EST


On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 08:26:54PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> On 7/17/25 7:18 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Thu, Jul 17, 2025 at 06:54:51PM +0300, Cristian Ciocaltea wrote:
> >> Perform a first round of coding style cleanup:
> >>
> >> * Add new lines after several statement blocks
> >> * Avoid line wrapping when 100-column width is not exceeded and it helps
> >> improve code readability
> >> * Ensure lines do not end with '('
> >> * Drop superfluous spaces or empty lines
> >> * Add spaces where necessary, e.g. around operators
> >> * Add braces for single if-statements when at least one branch of the
> >> conditional requires them
> >>
> >> This helps getting rid of the following checkpatch complaints:
> >>
> >> CHECK: Lines should not end with a '('
> >> CHECK: braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement
> >> CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement
> >> CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
> >> CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around
> >> CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
> >> CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
> >> CHECK: spaces preferred around that '-' (ctx:VxV)
> >> CHECK: spaces preferred around that '+' (ctx:VxV)
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Cristian Ciocaltea <cristian.ciocaltea@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Coding style cleanups need to be "one patch per logical change", not
> > "fix them all in one patch!" type of thing.
> >
> > Sorry, but can you break this out better?
>
> I could split this into something like:
>
> - Fix spaces & blank lines
> CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary before a close brace '}'
> CHECK: No space is necessary after a cast
> CHECK: spaces preferred around that '-' (ctx:VxV)
> CHECK: spaces preferred around that '+' (ctx:VxV)
>
> - Fix braces
> CHECK: braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement
> CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement
>
> - Fix alignment & line length
> CHECK: Lines should not end with a '('
> CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
>
> - Misc?!
> CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around

Why not one per CHECK: type?