Re: [PATCH] staging: comedi: proc.c Fixed warning and brace codestyle issue [kernel: linux-next: next-20130607]

From: Joe Perches
Date: Fri Jun 07 2013 - 03:47:38 EST


On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 01:27 -0600, Daniel Hamacher wrote:
> checkpatch provided a warning on line 38. It recommended seq_puts instead of seq_printf.
> Since the return value of printf is ignored, I decided to switch to the seq_puts
> function since it is just regular character output.
> source:: http://lwn.net/Articles/22355/
>
> I also added braces on a for loop, since loops should be in braces.
> source:: Documentation/CodingStyle
>
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Hamcher <danielhamacher.dh@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/comedi/proc.c | 13 +++++++------
> 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/proc.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/proc.c
> index 8ee9442..5cf19b3 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/comedi/proc.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/proc.c
> @@ -34,11 +34,11 @@ static int comedi_read(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
> int devices_q = 0;
> struct comedi_driver *driv;
>
> - seq_printf(m,
> - "comedi version " COMEDI_RELEASE "\n"
> - "format string: %s\n",
> - "\"%2d: %-20s %-20s %4d\", i, "
> - "driver_name, board_name, n_subdevices");
> + seq_puts(m,
> + "comedi version " COMEDI_RELEASE "\n"
> + "format string: %s\n",
> + "\"%2d: %-20s %-20s %4d\", i, "
> + "driver_name, board_name, n_subdevices");

Please compile the files patched by your patches
before submitting the patches.

This doesn't compile, the seq_printf is correct
and the recommendation to use seq_puts not correct.
checkpatch ain't perfect.

> @@ -57,10 +57,11 @@ static int comedi_read(struct seq_file *m, void *v)
>
> for (driv = comedi_drivers; driv; driv = driv->next) {
> seq_printf(m, "%s:\n", driv->driver_name);
> - for (i = 0; i < driv->num_names; i++)
> + for (i = 0; i < driv->num_names; i++) {
> seq_printf(m, " %s\n",
> *(char **)((char *)driv->board_name +
> i * driv->offset));
> + }

Adding braces here is not necessary.

Run checkpatch on your patches too.


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