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From: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>
To: Tracey Dent <tdent48227@gmail.com>
Cc: greg@kroah.com, abbotti@mev.co.uk, fmhess@users.sourceforge.net,
	kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/28] Staging: comedi: drivers.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 4 warnings and 0 errors
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 10:54:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4CACB7C3.9030000@caviumnetworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1286326843-6170-7-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com>

On 10/05/2010 06:00 PM, Tracey Dent wrote:
> Changed a few lines that made checkpatch.pl complain. Could not get ever warning but
> I got it down to to just 4, WARNING: line over 80 characters.

The overall goal is to improve the code, not placate checkpatch.pl

[...]
>   				printk
> -				    (KERN_WARNING "BUG! detaching device with use_count=%d\n",
> -				     dev->use_count);
> +				    (KERN_WARNING "BUG! detaching device     \
> +							with use_count=%d\n",
> +							dev->use_count);

Is that really an improvement?

And even if it were, is that really how strings should be split up?

Hint:
	pr_warning("BUG! detaching device with use_count=%d\n",
		   dev->use_count);


David Daney

  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-10-06 17:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-10-06  1:00 [PATCH 01/28] Staging: comedi: comedi.h: Edit file so cleanpatch.pl has 0 errors and warnings Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 02/28] Staging: comedi: comedi_compat32.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 03/28] Staging: comedi: comedi_compat32.h: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 04/28] Staging: comedi: comedidev.h: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 05/28] Staging: comedi: comedi_fops.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 1 warnings and 0 errors Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 06/28] Staging: comedi: comedilib.h: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 0 errors and warnings Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 07/28] Staging: comedi: drivers.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 4 warnings and 0 errors Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  4:48   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06 17:54   ` David Daney [this message]
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 08/28] Staging: comedi: proc.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 0 errors and warnings Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 09/28] Staging: comedi: range.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 10/28] Staging: comedi: kcomedilib: kcomedilib_main.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  4:44   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 11/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: 8253.h: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 12/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: 8255.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 13/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: 8255.h: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 14/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci2608.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 15/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci7230.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 16/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci7296.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 17/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci7432.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 18/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci8164.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 19/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci9111.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 30 warnings and 3 errors Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  4:34   ` Dan Carpenter
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 20/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adl_pci9118.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 0 errors and warnings Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 21/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adq12b.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 0 errors and 2 warnings Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 22/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adv_pci1710.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl complains a little less Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 23/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adv_pci1723.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 0 warnings and 0 errors Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 24/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: adv_pci_dio.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 3 warnings and 1 errors Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 25/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: aio_aio12_8.c: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 0 errors and warnings Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 26/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: aio_iiro_16.c: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 27/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: am9513.h: " Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:00 ` [PATCH 28/28] Staging: comedi: drivers: amcc_s5933.h: Edit file so that checkpatch.pl has 2 warnings and 0 errors Tracey Dent
2010-10-06  1:50 ` [PATCH 01/28] Staging: comedi: comedi.h: Edit file so cleanpatch.pl has 0 errors and warnings Greg KH
2010-10-06  2:01   ` T Dent

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