Re: [PATCH]: Third (final?) release of Sun Neptune driver

David Miller
2007-10-05T21:38:50Z

From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:14:31 -0400

> You just have to ignore some of its complaints. Part of my coding style
> includes the multiple assignment thing that checkpatch complains about:
>
> status =
> msi->status = br32(QDMA_STAT);
>
> and I am not going to stop doing that just because checkpatch complains :)

Whilst I wouldn't condone this practice personally, I fail to
see a reason to prevent someone willing to write and maintain
a 10,000 line driver from doing so :-)