Re: [PATCH v3 1/6] staging: rtl8192e: fix coding style issues (merge broken strings)

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On Mon, 2015-03-16 at 22:57 +0100, Mateusz Kulikowski wrote:
> On 13.03.2015 01:27, Joe Perches wrote:
> > 
> > Another thing you might consider is to change these
> > embedded function names in another patch to use
> > 	"%s: ", __func__
> > 
> > 				RT_TRACE(COMP_ERR,
> > 					 "%s: "unknown hardware version\n",
> > 					 __func__)
> > 
> > There's a cocci script for that.
> > http://cocci.systeme.lip6.narkive.com/nKXf6Bmy/finding-embedded-function-names
> 
> This tool (coccinelle) looks great - I will once take look at it and do swap like suggested; 
> It probably can be used to cleanup other parts of this driver as well - if I knew about it earlier it would save me a lot of repetitive work.

Coccinelle is a very useful tool.

Another thing that can save typing is using
scripts/checkpatch.pl with the --fix (or --fix-inplace)
option with various --types=<foo>.

There is a trivial script that can help
https://lkml.org/lkml/2014/7/11/794


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