Re: [PATCH] staging: speakup: Fix warning of line over 80 characters.

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Am 29.03.2015 um 00:44 schrieb Shirish Gajera:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 02:35:19PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
>> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 22:22 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>> Am 28.03.2015 um 22:18 schrieb Joe Perches:
>>>> On Sat, 2015-03-28 at 21:40 +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2015 at 9:21 PM, Shirish Gajera <gshirishfree@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>>>> This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
>> []
>>>>> Instead of blindly adding newlines to silence checkpatch.pl, what
>>>>> about reworking the code?
>>>>> printf("%s\n", ..) cries for a puts().
>>>>
>>>> There is no synth_puts
>>>
>>> So what?
>>> Fix it! :-)
>>
>> Not sure that'd make the code better... ;-p
>>
>>> the whole code is horrible and lines other 80 chars are the *least*
>>> problem.
>>
>> Dunno about how horrible it is, my guess is it works.
>>
>>> Submitting a patch just for the sake of silencing checkpatch.pl is a waste of time.
>>> After applying this patch the driver 0 better than before.
>>
>> Agree with that.
>>
>> And truly, checkpatch is only a guide.
>>
>> Making the code better instead of merely style conforming
>> should be the primary goal of patches.
> 
> This is my first patch.

Are you sure?
http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/pipermail/kernelnewbies/2015-January/013187.html

> Actually on the website it's return that 
> "Pick a warning, and try to fix it. For your first patch, only pick one
> warning. In the future you can group multiple changes into one patch,
> but only if you follow the PatchPhilosophy of breaking each patch into
> logical changes."
> 
> My main aim is to get the patch in and get familier with the full system
> (code checking,flow etc.). So, I am fixing simple warning.
> 
> If this code require changes then I can do as part of future changes.

The future is now, please address these issues now. :-)
Again, blindly fixing checkpatch.pl warnings is worthless.

Thanks,
//richard
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