Hi, On Wed, Oct 08, 2014 at 09:46:55PM +0200, Roberto Medina wrote: > Thank you very much for your feedback. I just want to let you know that I > didn't ignore that annotation from the last patch. I actually added the > white line because checkpatch shows a warning there. > > WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations > #553: FILE: drivers/staging/octeon/ethernet-tx.c:553: > + cvmx_wqe_t *work = cvmx_fpa_alloc(CVMX_FPA_WQE_POOL); > + if (unlikely(work == NULL)) { > > I don't see why I shouldn't insert a line there. Maybe something like this would be more readable: void *copy_location; + cvmx_wqe_t *work; /* Get a work queue entry */ - cvmx_wqe_t *work = cvmx_fpa_alloc(CVMX_FPA_WQE_POOL); + work = cvmx_fpa_alloc(CVMX_FPA_WQE_POOL); if (unlikely(work == NULL)) { Then declarations would be correctly separated from the code... A. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-next" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html