Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: silicom: checkpatch fixes

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jul 09 2014 - 05:38:35 EST


The patch does too many things, break it up into one type of fix per
patch.

On Tue, Jul 01, 2014 at 02:24:36PM +0200, Davide Gianforte wrote:
> Chechpatch.pl cleanup
>
> There are still some warnings, most of them are lines over 80 chars
> (mainly a semicolon or closing parenthesis).
>
> Where not specified, I defaulted printk with no log level into pr_debug

No. You can't just use pr_debug for everything. Also some of them are
not whole line prints so the pr_debug() will put extra info in the
middle of the lines.

Write a hello_world.ko kernel module and play with the printk until you
understand what I mean.

regards,
dan carpenter

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