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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Daniel Dressler <danieru.dressler@gmail.com>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, waydi1@gmail.com,
	yangds.fnst@cn.fujitsu.com, serban.constantinescu@arm.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arve@android.com,
	john.stultz@linaro.org, prtvar.b@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: android: binder: Fix 10 overlong lines
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 15:47:16 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140619224716.GA8223@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1401578993-24829-1-git-send-email-danieru.dressler@gmail.com>

On Sat, May 31, 2014 at 05:29:53PM -0600, Daniel Dressler wrote:
> This patch was made following Greg Kroah-Hartman's
> newbie guide. It is not intended to make any
> logical alterations to codeflow. Of note to reviews
> this patch switch's a call to kzalloc to kcalloc on
> line 2837
> 
> Neil Brown gave good advice on how to align
> the over-long function calls. He suggested
> using a single tab to indent the arguments.
> Like thus:
> var = function(
> 	arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4);
> 
> I intended to use the style he suggested but
> noticed much of the existing code instead
> aligns the overflow with the first argument
> and tries to give all arguments equal space.
> Like thus:
> var = function(arg1, arg2
> 	       arg3, arg4);
> 
> This second method uses spaces to align the
> arguments.
> 
> Taking a survey of the first 800 lines the
> following lines used each method:
> 
> Method #1: 666, 527, 572
> Method #2: 475, 495, 520, 545, 554, 582, 630,
>            677, 788
> 
> Thus to maintain consistancy this patch uses
> method #1. If method #1 is not acceptable
> please do not hesitate to say so.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Dressler <danieru.dressler@gmail.com>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++----------
>  1 file changed, 22 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

This patch doesn't apply properly to my staging-next branch of the
staging.git tree :(


      reply	other threads:[~2014-06-19 22:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-05-31 23:29 [PATCH] staging: android: binder: Fix 10 overlong lines Daniel Dressler
2014-06-19 22:47 ` Greg KH [this message]

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