Re: [PATCH 4/5] silicom: checkpatch: trailing statements

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Lorenz Haspel wrote:
> fixed checkpatch error:
> trailing statements that should be on next line
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Banken <michael.banken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenz Haspel <lorenz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c |   14 ++++++++++----
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c b/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c
> index 78570dd..85aa900 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c
> @@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ static int bp_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
>  			memcpy(&cbuf, drvinfo.bus_info, 32);
>  			buf = &cbuf[0];
>  
> -			while (*buf++ != ':') ;
> +			while (*buf != ':')
> +				buf++;
> +			buf++;


No.  This is more complicated than the original.  While loops like
this are idiomatic in C.  The way to fix this is just to do:

			while (*buf++ != ':')
				;

Same for the rest, just move the semi-colon down in every case.

regards,
dan carpenter

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