Re: [RESEND PATCH 1/2] staging: rtl8712: Fix Alignment of open parenthesis

From: Joe Perches
Date: Mon Oct 28 2019 - 04:09:48 EST


On Mon, 2019-10-28 at 11:01 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 25, 2019 at 06:50:25PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Fri, 2019-10-25 at 22:09 -0300, Cristiane Naves wrote:
> > > Fix alignment should match open parenthesis.Issue found by checkpatch.
> >
> > Beyond doing style cleanups, please always try
> > to make the code more readable.
> >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/rtl8712_recv.c
> > []
> > > @@ -61,13 +61,13 @@ void r8712_init_recv_priv(struct recv_priv *precvpriv,
> > > precvbuf->ref_cnt = 0;
> > > precvbuf->adapter = padapter;
> > > list_add_tail(&precvbuf->list,
> > > - &(precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue.queue));
> > > + &(precvpriv->free_recv_buf_queue.queue));
> >
> > Please remove the unnecessary parentheses too
> >
>
> Removing the parentheses increases your chance of the patch being
> rejected on the one thing per patch rule...

Which for people that actually know how to
read and write code is a silly rule.