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From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Cc: Ajith P V <ajithpv.linux@gmail.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-staging@lists.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: fwserial: rearrange comment to avoid warning
Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2022 20:57:39 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20220119175739.GM1951@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <dd6c45ef-70a4-9a54-affe-2bab17e13ce0@infradead.org>

On Wed, Jan 19, 2022 at 07:19:24AM -0800, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> On 1/19/22 00:41, Ajith P V wrote:
> > fwserial.h comment contains word "bits" 2 times together.
> > The sentence required this however it produce warning.
> > Change the comment to make it proper.
> 
> Is that a warning from checkpatch?

Yeah.  You're right.

WARNING: Possible repeated word: 'bits'
#207: FILE: drivers/staging/fwserial/fwserial.h:207:
+ *         bits 15..0  correspond to TIOCM_* bits
                                              ^^^^
+ *         bits 19..16 reserved for mctrl
            ^^^^
> If so, it's OK to ignore something like that.
> checkpatch isn't perfect and we know that.

Yep.  Checkpatch is not the boss of us.

regards,
dan carpenter


      reply	other threads:[~2022-01-19 17:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-01-19  8:41 [PATCH] staging: fwserial: rearrange comment to avoid warning Ajith P V
2022-01-19 15:19 ` Randy Dunlap
2022-01-19 17:57   ` Dan Carpenter [this message]

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