On Wed, 2017-08-23 at 18:12 +0200, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > Hi, > > Please use a more descriptive patch subject, i.e. > "fbdev: vgastate: fix checkpatch.pl reported warnings". > > Please also cc: fbdev mailing list (linux-fbdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > on fbdev patches). > > On Monday, August 21, 2017 07:33:51 PM Himanshu Jha wrote: > > Fixes the following checkpatch warnings: > > WARNING: line over 80 characters > > WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '(' > > WARNING: EXPORT_SYMBOL(foo); should immediately follow its function/variable [] > > diff --git a/drivers/video/vgastate.c b/drivers/video/vgastate.c [] > > @@ -31,8 +31,9 @@ struct regstate { > > __u8 misc; > > }; > > > > -static inline unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, unsigned short iobase, > > - unsigned char reg) > > +static inline unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, > > + unsigned short iobase, > > + unsigned char reg) > > This is not an improvement and doesn't conform to the kernel CodingStyle. > > It should be: > > static inline unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, > unsigned short iobase, > unsigned char reg) > > > { > > vga_w(regbase, iobase + 0x4, reg); > > return vga_r(regbase, iobase + 0x5); Better to remove the inline and let the compiler decide too. Perhaps: static unsigned char vga_rcrtcs(void __iomem *regbase, unsigned short iobase, unsigned char reg) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fbdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html