Thanks Dan for the reply. I am a kernel newbie so this will help me learn. I will make the required changes and try to avoid them next time. On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 2:21 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 01:44:48AM +0530, Harsh Kumar wrote: >> checkpatch cleanup for drivers/staging/winbond/wb35tx_s.h >> >> 1) Changed c99 comments to c89 comments >> 2) Removed undesired spaces which were causing checkpatch errors. >> > > Can you break this up into two patches. > > This doesn't apply for me on linux-next (please redo it so it > applies). > >> Signed-off-by: Harsh Kumar <harsh1kumar@xxxxxxxxx> >> >> diff -uprN a/drivers/staging/winbond/wb35tx_s.h b/drivers/staging/winbond/wb35tx_s.h >> --- a/drivers/staging/winbond/wb35tx_s.h >> +++ b/drivers/staging/winbond/wb35tx_s.h >> @@ -3,45 +3,45 @@ >> >> #include "mds_s.h" >> >> -//==================================== >> -// IS89C35 Tx related definition >> -//==================================== >> -#define TX_INTERFACE 0 // Interface 1 >> -#define TX_PIPE 3 // endpoint 4 >> -#define TX_INTERRUPT 1 // endpoint 2 >> -#define MAX_INTERRUPT_LENGTH 64 // It must be 64 for EP2 hardware >> +/********************************** >> +* IS89C35 Tx related definition >> +***********************************/ > > Just make these a normal comments. > > /* IS89C35 Tx related definitions */ > > Or for multi-line: > > /* > * IS89C35 Tx related blah blah blha blah blah blah blah blha blah > * definitions > */ > > There is a section on comments in CodingStyle. > >> +#define TX_INTERFACE 0 /* Interface 1 */ >> +#define TX_PIPE 3 /* Endpoint 4 */ >> +#define TX_INTERRUPT 1 /* Endpoint 2 */ >> +#define MAX_INTERRUPT_LENGTH 64 /* It must be 64 for EP2 hardware */ >> >> >> > > Only one blank line at a time. (Although that was there in the > original so that's fine). > >> -//==================================== >> -// Internal variable for module >> -//==================================== >> +/********************************** >> +* Internal variable for module >> +***********************************/ >> >> >> struct wb35_tx { >> - // For Tx buffer >> - u8 TxBuffer[ MAX_USB_TX_BUFFER_NUMBER ][ MAX_USB_TX_BUFFER ]; >> + /* For Tx buffer */ >> + u8 TxBuffer[MAX_USB_TX_BUFFER_NUMBER][MAX_USB_TX_BUFFER]; >> >> - // For Interrupt pipe >> + /* For Interrupt pipe */ >> u8 EP2_buf[MAX_INTERRUPT_LENGTH]; >> >> - atomic_t TxResultCount;// For thread control of EP2 931130.4.m >> - atomic_t TxFireCounter;// For thread control of EP4 931130.4.n >> - u32 ByteTransfer; >> - >> - u32 TxSendIndex;// The next index of Mds array to be sent >> - u32 EP2vm_state; // for EP2vm state >> - u32 EP4vm_state; // for EP4vm state >> - u32 tx_halt; // Stopping VM >> + atomic_t TxResultCount;/* For thread control of EP2 931130.4.m */ > ^ > Put a space there, between the semi-colon and the comment. > > regards, > dan carpenter > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html