On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 17:57 +0100, James Simmons wrote: > > On Thu, 2017-06-15 at 17:03 +0100, James Simmons wrote: > > > > On Wed, 2017-06-14 at 11:01 -0400, James Simmons wrote: > > > > > Due to the way the DFID was embedded in our debug strings checkpatch > > > > > would report the following error: > > > > > > > > unrelated trivia > > > > > > > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_user.h b/drivers/staging/lustre/lustre/include/lustre/lustre_user.h > > > > > > > > [] > > > > > @@ -532,7 +532,7 @@ static inline void obd_uuid2fsname(char *buf, char *uuid, int buflen) > > > > > #define FID_NOBRACE_LEN 40 > > > > > #define FID_LEN (FID_NOBRACE_LEN + 2) > > > > > #define DFID_NOBRACE "%#llx:0x%x:0x%x" > > > > > > > > It's odd to use a mixture of %#x and 0x%x. > > > > > > > > Using > > > > #define DFID_NOBRACE "%#llx:%#x:%#x" > > > > would also save a couple bytes per use. > > > > > > Changing that format would break things very badly. This is used in user > > > land utilities and the kernel code. > > > > Really? Why would anything break? > > It shouldn't break anything but I'm paranoid. Which is an entirely different thing than writing "would break things very badly". Paranoia is fine, incorrect statements of fact like that less so. > In the past I have change > "simple" things to have it blow up. I pushed the change to our test > harness just to make sure. Understandable. cheers, Joe _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
