Re: [PATCH 1/4] staging: omap-thermal: Correct checkpatch.pl warnings

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Sep 12 2012 - 10:18:16 EST


On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 12:19:00PM +0300, Valentin, Eduardo wrote:
> Hello Dan,
>
> On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:26 AM, Dan Carpenter
> <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 12, 2012 at 11:11:27AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> >> On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 07:06:52PM +0300, Eduardo Valentin wrote:
> >> > From: J Keerthy <j-keerthy@xxxxxx>
> >> >
> >> > Removes checkpatch warnings on omap-bandgap.c.
> >> >
> >>
> >> Which checkpatch.pl warnings?
> >>
> >> > + omap_bandgap_writel(bg_ptr,
> >> > + rval->tshut_threshold,
> >> > + tsr->tshut_threshold);
> >>
> >> That's just whacky.
> >>
> >> Personally, I've never cared much about long lines, so I'd prefer
> >> to leave these as is until someone can break the functions up and
> >> remove them in a proper way instead of just shifting everything
> >> randomly to the left.
> >>
> >
> > Sorry, that was my default response without looking at the code.
> >
> > This is already broken up into small functions pretty nicely. You
> > might want to consider using shorter names. For example
> > omap_bandgap_writel() could be changed to "obg_writel()" and "bg_ptr"
> > could be changed to just "bg" because it's obviously a pointer.
>
> Yeah, that's one option. Of course the deal is to find the proper
> balance between cryptic symbol names and code mangled / shifted to the
> left.
>

Another option would be to just let checkpatch complain. It's a
perl script, not the king of us. Do what looks the nicest to human
beings.

regards,
dan carpenter

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