Re: [PATCH 0/17] Add Texas Instruments OMAP LCD driver-v2

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Tue, 26 Jun 2007 18:00:22 +0530
"Trilok Soni" <soni.trilok@gmail.com> wrote:

> This patch series contains Texas Instruments OMAP LCD framebuffer
> drivers. This driver is divided into
> 
> * main omapfb driver, which handles most common functions across
> processor series, like platform driver registration, ioctl handling,
> much like fb skeleton.
> 
> This driver then gets through the callback based on the
> internal/external lcd controller and panel registered to it based on
> processor and board. Internal/External LCD controller as per lcd panel
> data registration is being done in separate files and so does patches.
> 
> Overall this patches contains framebuffer driver for TI OMAP1
> (OMAP1510/1610/1710) and OMAP2 (OMAP2420/2430) and external
> controllers used in Nokia Internal Tablets (N770/N800).
> 
> These drivers were very well tested on OMAP GIT [1] tree from long
> time. Most of the code for this driver is written by Imre Deak
> <imre.deak@solidboot.com>.

It seems churlish to complain about the 10-15 minutes spent reassembling
the mime mess when so much effort has gone into this work.  But for the
long-term, pleeeeeeeeze do have a talk with your email setup so that you no
longer need to send patches as attachments, OK?

> Also CCed to LKML for wider review, and this v2 went through checkpatch.pl and
> I have modified the patches to accept most of checkpatch comments.

Maybe you had an old version of checkpatch:

trailing statements should be on next line
#520: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:402:
+	else switch (var->bits_per_pixel) {

line over 80 characters
#1136: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1018:
+static enum omapfb_update_mode omapfb_get_update_mode(struct omapfb_device *fbdev)

do not use assignment in if condition
#1251: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1133:
+		if ((r = omapfb_query_plane(fbi, &p.plane_info)) < 0)

do not use assignment in if condition
#1265: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1147:
+		if ((r = omapfb_query_mem(fbi, &p.mem_info)) < 0)

do not use assignment in if condition
#1279: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1161:
+		if ((r = omapfb_get_color_key(fbdev, &p.color_key)) < 0)

do not use assignment in if condition
#1535: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1417:
+	if ((r = device_create_file(fbdev->dev, &dev_attr_caps_num)))

do not use assignment in if condition
#1538: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1420:
+	if ((r = device_create_file(fbdev->dev, &dev_attr_caps_text)))

do not use assignment in if condition
#1541: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1423:
+	if ((r = sysfs_create_group(&fbdev->dev->kobj, &panel_attr_grp)))

do not use assignment in if condition
#1544: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1426:
+	if ((r = sysfs_create_group(&fbdev->dev->kobj, &ctrl_attr_grp)))

do not use assignment in if condition
#1646: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1528:
+		if ((r = fbinfo_init(fbdev, fbi)) < 0) {

else should follow close brace
#2001: FILE: drivers/video/omap/omapfb_main.c:1883:
+		}
+		else if (!strncmp(this_opt, "vxres:", 6))

Your patch has style problems, please review.  If any of these errors
are false positives report them to the maintainer, see
CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.

Plus there are quite a large number of extern declarations in C files,
which is poor practice, which checkpatch failed to detect (maintainer has
been notified).



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