Re: [PATCH v4 10/13] staging: lustre: lnet: lnet: checkpatch.pl fixes

Julia Lawall
2015-05-21T21:29:27Z

On Thu, 21 May 2015, Joe Perches wrote:

> On Thu, 2015-05-21 at 15:50 -0400, Mike Shuey wrote:
> > Fix many checkpatch.pl warnings.
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/acceptor.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/lnet/acceptor.c
> []
> > @@ -99,38 +99,42 @@ lnet_connect_console_error(int rc, lnet_nid_t peer_nid,
> > switch (rc) {
> > /* "normal" errors */
> > case -ECONNREFUSED:
> > - CNETERR("Connection to %s at host %pI4h on port %d was refused: check that Lustre is running on that node.\n",
> > - libcfs_nid2str(peer_nid),
> > - &peer_ip, peer_port);
> > + CNETERR(
> > + "Connection to %s at host %pI4h on port %d was refused: check that Lustre is running on that node.\n",
> > + libcfs_nid2str(peer_nid), &peer_ip, peer_port);
>
> These are not improvements and checkpatch messages aren't dicta.
>
> Please don't convert code unless the conversion makes it better
> for a human reader.
>
> These don't.

I haven't looked into it, but perhaps there is a standard kernel printing
function that these could be converted to directly?

julia