On Sun, Mar 29, 2015 at 12:54:45AM +0100, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> 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
Yup, this patch never got merge because I was doing changes against
wrong repo.
>
> > 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
Are you sure you want me to do this changes. Because it will conflict
the things written on http://kernelnewbies.org/
Thanks,
Shirish
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