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From: Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
To: Arushi Singhal <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
Cc: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH] net: netfilter: Remove multiple assignment.
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2017 14:21:53 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170327122153.GA25113@salvia> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+XqjF_4cXL58vnxgKmawuZ4F0ZqvU1KvAtRbJv_r1ArLTpExw@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 05:48:41PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 27, 2017 at 5:38 PM, Pablo Neira Ayuso <pablo@netfilter.org>
> wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, Mar 25, 2017 at 06:19:47PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> > > This patch removes multiple assignments.
> > > Done using coccinelle.
> > > @@
> > > identifier i1,i2;
> > > constant c;
> > > @@
> > > - i1=i2=c;
> > > + i1=c;
> > > + i2=c;
> >
> > You have to explain why this is bad.
> >
> 
> It is against the kernel coding style and we have to avoid multiple
> assignments to make the code more readable.
> This error is found using Checkpatch.pl script.

Then, please place this information in your patch description.

Thanks!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2017-03-27 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-25 12:49 [PATCH] net: netfilter: Remove multiple assignment Arushi Singhal
2017-03-27 12:08 ` Pablo Neira Ayuso
     [not found]   ` <CA+XqjF_4cXL58vnxgKmawuZ4F0ZqvU1KvAtRbJv_r1ArLTpExw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-03-27 12:21     ` Pablo Neira Ayuso [this message]
2017-03-27 15:09   ` David Laight

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