Re: [PATCH] MM: shmem: Remove code sytle warnings

[Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>]

mm not MM, style not sytle.

On Wed, 8 Nov 2023, Omkar Wagle wrote:

> Remove most of the code style warnings
> 
> Signed-off-by: Omkar Wagle<ov.wagle@gmail.com>
> ---
>  mm/shmem.c | 51 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------
>  1 file changed, 33 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

Thanks for trying, but I'm sorry: very little of this is an improvement.

Almost all of it is just adding a blank line in between declaration and
code in some small block (including at least one from Linus himself).

checkpatch does a good job of encouraging tidy patches, but it makes no
claim to being right; and that particular nag annoys me more often than
any other (though I often grudgingly give in to it, just for a quiet life
- Cc'ing Matthew because I suspect he resents it even more than I do).

And look at those fsparams: Al and others have gone to the trouble of
lining them up nicely, but you've decided to undo their work.

I believe it's explained somewhere (but admit that a quick look in
Documentation didn't show me where), that checkpatch is something to run
to tidy up your patches, or new source files (or perhaps even staging);
but please don't send its advice on well-established source files.

Hugh