Re: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: Fix lines longer than 80 characters

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Fri, Dec 02, 2016 at 08:13:49PM +0100, Fernando Apesteguia wrote:
> For the first lines of the patch, I opted to create a small function
> instead of breaking the the line in a weird way.
> 
> The other changes are simple ones.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Fernando Apesteguia <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c | 42 +++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> index af4bc86..835d448 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_tty.c
> @@ -102,6 +102,7 @@ static int dgnc_tty_write(struct tty_struct *tty, const unsigned char *buf,
>  static void dgnc_tty_set_termios(struct tty_struct *tty,
>  				 struct ktermios *old_termios);
>  static void dgnc_tty_send_xchar(struct tty_struct *tty, char ch);
> +static void dgnc_keep_line_low(struct channel_t *ch, const unsigned char line);
>  
>  static const struct tty_operations dgnc_tty_ops = {
>  	.open = dgnc_tty_open,
> @@ -786,6 +787,12 @@ void dgnc_check_queue_flow_control(struct channel_t *ch)
>  	}
>  }
>  
> +static void dgnc_keep_line_low(struct channel_t *ch, const unsigned char line)
> +{
> +	ch->ch_mostat &= ~(line);
> +	ch->ch_bd->bd_ops->assert_modem_signals(ch);
> +}

Your name here is odd, it is named because of what it does to the coding
style, not to the logic of what is happening in the function itself,
making it very confusing.

Yes, naming is hard, one of the hardest things in programming.

thanks,

greg k-h