Re: [PATCH 08/17] usb: host: ehci-dbg: remove unnecessary space after cast

[Greg Kroah-Hartman]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2016 at 06:40:38PM -0300, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> 2016-01-04 17:58 GMT-03:00 Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Mon, 4 Jan 2016, Geyslan G. Bem wrote:
> >
> >> This patch fixes coding style issues reported by checkpatch concerning
> >> to unnecessary space after a cast.
> >
> > This is a case where checkpatch is wrong, IMO.  Casts should always be
> > followed by a space.  I will not accept this patch.
> Ok. I understand.
> 
> >
> > This must be something recently added to checkpatch.  It never used to
> > complain about casts, whether they were followed by a space or not.
> I'm using the checkpatch --strict option.

Please never use that on existing kernel code, except for
drivers/staging/ stuff, otherwise your patches will start to very
quickly be ignored.

thanks,

greg k-h
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