Re: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8187se: fixed some checkpatch warnings and errors in r8180_wx.c

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Le 20/11/2012 15:25, Dan Carpenter a écrit :

> On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 02:26:42PM +0100, MAACHE Mehdi wrote:
>> This is a patch to the r8180_wx.c file that fixes up some warnings and errors found by the checkpatch.pl tool
>> - WARNING: line over 80 characters
>> - ERROR: "(foo*)" should be "(foo *)"
>> - ERROR: "foo* bar" should be "foo *bar"
>> - ERROR: trailing whitespace
>> - ERROR: that open brace { should be on the previous line
>>
> 
> This needs to be broken into 4-5 separate patches and sent as
> series.  One patch per warning type.
> 
>> -	if (erq->flags & IW_ENCODE_DISABLED)
>> -
>> -	if (erq->length > 0) {
>> -		u32* tkey = (u32*) key;
>> +	if ((erq->flags & IW_ENCODE_DISABLED) && erq->length > 0) {
>> +		u32 *tkey = (u32 *) key;
> 
> Interesting...  You have preserved the meaning of the original code,
> but actually the original code is buggy.  Just delete the
> "if (erq->flags & IW_ENCODE_DISABLED)" check.  This bug was
> introduced in de171bd6ff "Staging: rtl8187se: r8180_wx: fixed a lot
> of checkptahc.pl issues".
> 
> Send that as a separate patch and mark it as a bugfix.
> 
> regards,
> dan carpenter
> 


Ok, I will do this. Thanks for the advice.

regards,

maache mehdi
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