Re: [PATCH v2 28/29] staging: wilc1000: avoid spaces preferred around checkpatch issue

[Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>]

On Thu, 20 Sep 2018 02:57:21 -0700
Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 2018-09-20 at 11:53 +0530, Ajay Singh wrote:
> > Cleanup patch to add extra spaces around the '/' to avoid the below
> > checkpatch warning.
> > 
> > 'spaces preferred around that '/' (ctx:VxV)'
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Ajay Singh <ajay.kathat@microchip.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c | 2 +-
> >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> > b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c index 695d5b2..29c1317
> > 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wilc1000/linux_wlan.c
> > @@ -823,7 +823,7 @@ static void wilc_set_multicast_list(struct
> > net_device *dev) 
> >  	netdev_for_each_mc_addr(ha, dev) {
> >  		memcpy(mc_list + i, ha->addr, ETH_ALEN);
> > -		netdev_dbg(dev, "Entry[%d]: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x\n",
> > i/ETH_ALEN,
> > +		netdev_dbg(dev, "Entry[%d]: %x:%x:%x:%x:%x:%x\n",
> > i / ETH_ALEN, mc_list[i], mc_list[i + 1], mc_list[i + 2],
> >  			   mc_list[i + 3], mc_list[i + 4],
> > mc_list[i + 5]); i += ETH_ALEN;  
> 
> Probably better using the vsprintf %pM extension:
> 
> 	netdev_dbg(dev, Entry[%d]: %pM\n", i / ETH_ALEN, mc_list + i);
> 
> though I would also suggest using another temporary
> pointer instead of an offset and divisions.
> 
> Something like:
> 
> o use kmalloc_array
> o remove unnecessary res
> o add u8 *cur_mc
> o use i as index

Hi Joe,

Thanks for your suggestion and sharing the code changes.
I agree, it looks better with your modification.


Do I need to resend the updated patch series by including your
changes or can this patch be applied from your mail ?

Regards,
Ajay