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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Mark Stenglein <mark@stengle.in>
Cc: devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: wlan-ng: hfa384x.h: fixed a newline coding style issue
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2017 07:53:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170306065338.GA31202@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170306020912.21046-1-mark@stengle.in>

On Sun, Mar 05, 2017 at 09:09:12PM -0500, Mark Stenglein wrote:
> Fixed a coding style issue.

What issue would that be?

> Signed-off-by: Mark Stenglein <mark@stengle.in>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h | 1 +
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
> index 5f1851c85f12..f19984747b1e 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
> +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x.h
> @@ -1175,6 +1175,7 @@ struct hfa384x_usbctlx {
>  	enum ctlx_state state;	/* Tracks running state */
>  
>  	struct completion done;
> +
>  	volatile int reapable;	/* Food for the reaper task */

What is wrong with the original code here?

Please don't blindly trust checkpatch.pl all the time, sometimes you
have to use your brain when reading the results.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-03-06  6:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-06  2:09 [PATCH] Staging: wlan-ng: hfa384x.h: fixed a newline coding style issue Mark Stenglein
2017-03-06  6:53 ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-03-07 17:31 ` Dan Carpenter
2017-03-07 17:36   ` Mark Stenglein
2017-03-07 17:40     ` Dan Carpenter

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