Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: msm: fix checkpatch warnings

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 02:42:02PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 8/4/2014 7:20 AM, Kiran Padwal wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning:
> > 
> > WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
> > 
> > WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
> > 
> > WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_err([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_err(dev, ... then pr_err(...  to printk(KERN_ERR ...
> > 
> > WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_info([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_info(dev, ... then pr_info(...  to printk(KERN_INFO ...
> > 
> > WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
> > 
> > WARNING: void function return statements are not generally useful
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Padwal <kiran.padwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c |   26 +++++++++++---------------
> >  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
> 
> Kiran,
> 
> I have a series of fix patches against this file that is going to collide
> with your cleanups.  Would you mind waiting until after I send my patches
> to do your clean up?

It's a first-come-first served, never ask someone to wait for you to
send your patches, you can't 'lock' a file in the kernel from changes
from others, that way is the death of a project.

So no, Kiran, don't wait :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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