Re: [PATCH 34/39] hwmon: (w83781d) Fix checkpatch issues

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On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 11:31 -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012 08:23:50 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > Hi Jean,
> > 
> > On Thu, 2012-01-19 at 08:54 -0500, Jean Delvare wrote:
> > > On Mon, 16 Jan 2012 00:49:36 -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> > > > diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/w83781d.c b/drivers/hwmon/w83781d.c
> > > > index 65b685e..816cc16 100644
> > > > --- a/drivers/hwmon/w83781d.c
> > > > +++ b/drivers/hwmon/w83781d.c
> > > > @@ -1,9 +1,9 @@
> > > >  /*
> > > >      w83781d.c - Part of lm_sensors, Linux kernel modules for hardware
> > > > -                monitoring
> > > > +		monitoring
> > > >      Copyright (c) 1998 - 2001  Frodo Looijaard <frodol@xxxxxx>,
> > > > -                               Philip Edelbrock <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > > -                               and Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > > +			       Philip Edelbrock <phil@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> > > > +			       and Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > >      Copyright (c) 2007 - 2008  Jean Delvare <khali@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > >  
> > > >      This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
> > > 
> > > The actual reason why checkpatch complains here is because it thinks
> > > this is code, not a comment. The proper fix would be to use proper
> > > comment style.
> >
> > Good point. I did wonder about that. I thought it would be a lot of work
> > to fix the comments. so I didn't even try. I'll see if I can come up
> > with a script to automate it. If so, I'll submit a separate series of
> > patches to address it for all drivers.
> 
> I'd have a less ambitious approach and simply fix the comment style if
> you were going to update the comment in question already. But up to you.
> 
Turned out the script was easy to write. Only problem with the result is
that it modified 82 files (out of 117). Only remaining question is if I
should go forward with it. Thoughts ?

Guenter



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