From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Date: Wed, 23 Aug 2017 16:12:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH] drivers: video: Fix 80 character limit and remove unnecessary space Message-Id: <5135691.E4iXgiitH9@amdc3058> List-Id: References: <1503324231-10675-1-git-send-email-himanshujha199640@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <1503324231-10675-1-git-send-email-himanshujha199640@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Himanshu Jha Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org Hi, Please use a more descriptive patch subject, i.e. "fbdev: vgastate: fix checkpatch.pl reported warnings". Please also cc: fbdev mailing list (linux-fbdev@vger.kernel.org on fbdev patches). On Monday, August 21, 2017 07:33:51 PM Himanshu Jha wrote: > Fixes the following checkpatch warnings: > WARNING: line over 80 characters > WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '(' > WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable > > Signed-off-by: Himanshu Jha > --- > drivers/video/vgastate.c | 10 +++++----- > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/video/vgastate.c b/drivers/video/vgastate.c > index 548c751..a52283d 100644 > --- a/drivers/video/vgastate.c > +++ b/drivers/video/vgastate.c > @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ struct regstate { > __u8 misc; > }; > > -static inline unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, unsigned short iobase, > - unsigned char reg) > +static inline unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, > + unsigned short iobase, > + unsigned char reg) This is not an improvement and doesn't conform to the kernel CodingStyle. It should be: static inline unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, unsigned short iobase, unsigned char reg) > { > vga_w(regbase, iobase + 0x4, reg); > return vga_r(regbase, iobase + 0x5); > @@ -454,8 +455,9 @@ int save_vga(struct vgastate *state) > } > return 0; > } > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(save_vga); > > -int restore_vga (struct vgastate *state) > +int restore_vga(struct vgastate *state) > { > if (state->vidstate = NULL) > return 1; > @@ -480,8 +482,6 @@ int restore_vga (struct vgastate *state) > vga_cleanup(state); > return 0; > } > - > -EXPORT_SYMBOL(save_vga); > EXPORT_SYMBOL(restore_vga); > > MODULE_AUTHOR("James Simmons "); Best regards, -- Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz Samsung R&D Institute Poland Samsung Electronics