[PATCH V2 08/19] irqchip: crossbar: fix checkpatch warning

[r.sricharan@ti.com (Sricharan R)]

Hi Jason,

On Thursday 12 June 2014 09:35 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2014-06-12 at 11:32 -0400, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> Hi Jason.
> 
>>> But bugfix backports haven't been much of an issue in
>>> other subsystems with fairly active whitespace/style
>>> changes.
>>
>> Most of the mvebu fixes we've had that failed to apply were generally
>> due to a large whitespace change (dts node shuffling, admittedly not
>> checkpatch-related).
> 
> So not due to this.
> 
>>   I've also frequently been stymied by code cleanups
>> when using git blame to find the commit introducing a regression.
> 
> git blame -w can frequently help there.
> 
>> So, my general rule is: If you're submitting a patch to make checkpatch
>> be quiet, re-assess the need.  If you're making changes and you can fix
>> some checkpatch items while you're there, then do so.
> 
> Decent rule.
> 
>> There are certainly legitimate checkpatch-only patches, I just don't
>> think this is one qualifies.
> 
> Of course it's the maintainer's choice (and last I saw,
> that's you) to ignore whatever doesn't fit the appropriate
> vision for the code.
> 
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f drivers/irqchip/irq-crossbar.c
> Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS)
> Jason Cooper <jason@lakedaemon.net> (maintainer:IRQCHIP DRIVERS)
 
  Ok, if this is not qualifying as a separate patch then i will merge
  this with other patches in the series which touch them.

Regards,
 Sricharan