Re: madness, was Re: [PATCH 2/2] Macintosh: fix coding styleissues in adb.c This is a patch to the adb.c file that cleans up manywarnings found by the checkpatch.pl tool

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 14:48 +1100, fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Mar 2010, Michael Beardsworth wrote:
> 
> > -	/* If a probe is in progress or we are sleeping, wait for it to complete */
> > +	/* If a probe is in progress or we are sleeping, wait until complete */
> 
> If you must "fix" what aint broke, please try not to damage it. I'm sorry 
> if your VT52 is limited to 80 cols, but IMNSHO this sort of effort is 
> misguided.
> 
> Maybe I could point out again (I do this periodically) that checkpatch.pl 
> is great but code that fails it is NOT always wrong.
> 
> "Check patch" is a good idea but "check existing code" is a waste of 
> everyone's time.

Amen !

Cheers,
Ben.


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