Re: [PATCH] staging : android : fix checkpatch issues

[Dan Carpenter]

On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 07:23:46PM +0900, DaeSeok Youn wrote:
> Thanks for reviewing.
> 
> Yes, I just followed by reports of checkpatch.pl.
> 
> But I don't understand why I can use of seq_puts() in the middle of
> seq_printf() calls.
> I have been trying to search why that is not good but I didn't find
> anything about that.
> And I saw patches which were already merged similar with this patch.
> 
> You can see with this url
> https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/2d219c518882d2b2bac77742a6a8979c9dad051a
> https://github.com/mirrors/linux-2.6/commit/7aff38176e79a22b1749c2af74060028298e6a45
> 
> If you don't mind, let me know why it is not good.

Because it doesn't look nice.  It messes up the alignment.

Checkpatch is a tool not a king of the world.  Stop obeying checkpatch.

regards,
dan carpenter

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