Re: Staging: slicoss: Fix checkpatch.pl issues

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2015-03-25 at 00:39 +0530, Niranjan Dighe wrote:
> The following files had coding style issues that I tried to address.
> It was mostly about lines spanning more than 80 characters.
[]
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c b/drivers/staging/slicoss/slicoss.c
[]
> @@ -98,7 +98,8 @@
>  #include "slic.h"
>  
>  static uint slic_first_init = 1;
> -static char *slic_banner = "Alacritech SLIC Technology(tm) Server and Storage Accelerator (Non-Accelerated)";
> +static char *slic_banner = "Alacritech SLIC Technology(tm) Server "
> +			"and Storage Accelerator (Non-Accelerated)";

Please don't split strings.

Maybe remove this and update the format in the one place
it's used instead.

> @@ -755,10 +756,10 @@ static bool slic_mac_filter(struct adapter *adapter,
>  
>  			while (mcaddr) {
>  				if (ether_addr_equal(mcaddr->address,
> -						     ether_frame->ether_dhost)) {
> -					adapter->rcv_multicasts++;
> -					netdev->stats.multicast++;
> -					return true;
> +					ether_frame->ether_dhost)) {
> +						adapter->rcv_multicasts++;
> +						netdev->stats.multicast++;
> +						return true;

80 columns is a preferred limit not a hard one.
The original is correct and your new indentation is not.

> @@ -2561,8 +2562,9 @@ static int slic_ioctl(struct net_device *dev, struct ifreq *rq, int cmd)
>  			DBG_IOCTL("slic_ioctl  SIOCSLIC_TRACE_DUMP\n");
>  
>  			if (copy_from_user(data, rq->ifr_data, 28)) {
> -				PRINT_ERROR
> -				    ("slic: copy_from_user FAILED getting initial simba param\n");
> +				PRINT_ERROR(
> +		"slic: copy_from_user FAILED getting initial simba param\n"
> +				);

Just remove all the #ifdef SLIC_TRACE_DUMP_ENABLED blocks,
PRINT_ERROR isn't defined anywhere. and this can't be compiled.