Re: checkpatch warning of struct indentation

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 01:35:43PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 12 Jan 2009, Fr?d?ric Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > 2009/1/12 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I'm now seeing the following warnings from checkpatch:
> > >
> > > #325: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:21:
> > > +       void                    *stat;
> > >
> > > ERROR: "foo     *bar" should be "foo *bar"
> > > #334: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:27:
> > > +       struct tracer_stat      *ts;
> > >
> > > ERROR: "foo             *bar" should be "foo    *bar"
> > > #337: FILE: kernel/trace/trace_stat.c:30:
> > > +       struct dentry           *file;
> > 
> > 
> > Oh my patch :-)
> > Yeah I had the same errors when I checked it. I ignored them because
> > I because I remembered checkpatch.pl didn't warn about such things before.
> > And it seems to warn about such statements since very recently...
> 
> Heh, I should have CC'd you on this complaint ;-)
> 
> Yeah, this is a new warning and since we do a lot of these types of
> indentation, and they are marked as "ERROR", I would like to see these go 
> away. Perhaps they need to test for parenthesis, so:
> 
>  int func(foo		*bar)
> 
> gets caught.
> 
> 
> [off topic, funny English grammar]
> 
> I noticed that you said:
> 
>    And it seems to warn about such statements since very recently
> 
> This sounds strange. I know in German (and I know you are not German, but 
> it's what I have most experience with) the word "seit" gets translated 
> into "since" for such statements as above. A lot of Germans that I know 
> make this funny sounding phrase. I would have written it like:
> 
>    And, recently, it seems to warn about such statements.
> 
> Don't take this as a criticism. I'm the last person to criticize anyone's 
> grammar. For being an English speaking native, my grammar sucks ;-)
> And your statement may indeed be correct grammar. It just sounds a little
> funny to me.
> 
> In a lot of cases, (for Germans) "seit" can correctly be translated into
> "since" but there are times that it just sounds funny.
> 
> A common phrase from Germans are:
> 
>   I've been doing this since three years.
> 
> Just an observation, carry on ;-)
> 
> -- Steve
> 


Hehe. Yes, I always hesitate when I have to talk about elapsed time,
especially when it is an uncertain time...
And French/German are often confused with "since" and "for" while in
french we have only "depuis" and in german: "seit"...

Thanks, I'm always glad to be corrected in my english, hoping
it will be fixed by the time... :-)
 
> > 
> > 
> > > This is for:
> > >
> > > struct tracer_stat_session {
> > >        struct list_head        session_list;
> > >        struct tracer_stat      *ts;
> > >        struct list_head        stat_list;
> > >        struct mutex            stat_mutex;
> > >        struct dentry           *file;
> > > };
> > >
> > > Which looks a hell of a lot better than:
> > >
> > > struct tracer_stat_session {
> > >        struct list_head session_list;
> > >        struct tracer_stat *ts;
> > >        struct list_head stat_list;
> > >        struct mutex stat_mutex;
> > >        struct dentry *file;
> > > };
> > >
> > > We probably do not want to warn on such things.
> > >
> > > -- Steve
> > >
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