On Sat, 2018-06-09 at 12:54 +0200, Chris Opperman wrote: > Shortened a long line to improve readability in > drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c Hi Chris. Look at the whole function and see if you can find a better way to write it instead of merely doing what a brainless tool like checkpatch asks. > diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers.c [] > @@ -475,7 +475,8 @@ unsigned int comedi_nsamples_left(struct comedi_subdevice *s, > struct comedi_cmd *cmd = &async->cmd; > > if (cmd->stop_src == TRIG_COUNT) { > - unsigned int scans_left = __comedi_nscans_left(s, cmd->stop_arg); > + unsigned int scans_left = > + __comedi_nscans_left(s, cmd->stop_arg); > unsigned int scan_pos = > comedi_bytes_to_samples(s, async->scan_progress); > unsigned long long samples_left = 0; For instance, this is the existing function: unsigned int comedi_nsamples_left(struct comedi_subdevice *s, unsigned int nsamples) { struct comedi_async *async = s->async; struct comedi_cmd *cmd = &async->cmd; if (cmd->stop_src == TRIG_COUNT) { unsigned int scans_left = __comedi_nscans_left(s, cmd->stop_arg); unsigned int scan_pos = comedi_bytes_to_samples(s, async->scan_progress); unsigned long long samples_left = 0; if (scans_left) { samples_left = ((unsigned long long)scans_left * cmd->scan_end_arg) - scan_pos; } if (samples_left < nsamples) nsamples = samples_left; } return nsamples; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(comedi_nsamples_left); By using multiple returns and removing indentation, this could become something that doesn't fits neatly on 80 columns. It's the same number of vertical lines too. unsigned int comedi_nsamples_left(struct comedi_subdevice *s, unsigned int nsamples) { struct comedi_async *async = s->async; struct comedi_cmd *cmd = &async->cmd; unsigned int scans_left; u64 samples_left; if (cmd->stop_src != TRIG_COUNT) return nsamples; scans_left = __comedi_nscans_left(s, cmd->stop_arg); if (scans_left == 0) return 0; samples_left = (u64)scans_left * cmd->scan_end_arg - comedi_bytes_to_samples(s, s->async->scan_progress); if (samples_left < nsamples) return samples_left; return nsamples; } EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(comedi_nsamples_left); _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel