[PATCH v4 00/13] tty: serial: 8250: Fix checkpatch warnings

From: Anton Wuerfel
Date: Fri Jan 08 2016 - 12:51:47 EST


Hello Peter and Andy,

sorry for the long delay - we were very busy during christmas holidays.
We tried to incorporate your suggestions.

We apologize for syntax errors in v3-patchset. While fixing these issues
we added another patch to the series, so we decided to send in a new patchset
instead of fixing the damaged patch files in v3.

Regards,
Anton Wuerfel
Phillip Raffeck

This patch set fixes several checkpatch warnings in tty/serial/8250.

Patch 1/13: Adds missing spaces (mainly to function/macro headers)
Patch 2/13: Replace spaces with tabs wherever possible
Patch 3/13: Slight patch which moves an opening curly brace
Patch 4/13: Fixes multiline comment style
Patch 5/13: Removes else blocks after return statements
Patch 6/13: Slight patch which moves EXPORT_SYMBOL macro to correct position
Patch 7/13: Slight patch which removes an unneccessary line continuation
Patch 8/13: Slight patch which adds parentheses to a macro definition
Patch 9/13: Merges user-visible multiline strings to a single line
Patch 10/13: Replace printk by dev_* or pr_* where appropriate
Patch 11/13: Remove orphaned debug macro
Patch 12/13: Fix warnings in dev_dbg by adding two casts
Patch 13/13: Fixes code indentation

Remaining checkpatch warnings after applying this patch series:

-line over 80 characters
This error mostly occurs in serial_cs.c, which contains long-lined
macro calls. However, splitting these calls into multiple lines would
not increase readability.

-externs should be avoided in .c files
This occurs in 8250_hp300.c. There is no corresponding header file
the extern statement could be moved to. It could be moved to 8250.h
but this would affect other .c files.

-Use #include <linux/*.h> instead of <asm/*.h>
This warning has been left open for more experienced kernel hackers.
This patch series is about style issues. We do not intend to alter
the code behavior.
-struct uart_ops should normally be const
This warning only occurs in 8250_core.c. The corresponding struct
cannot be declared as const because it is altered in
serial8250_isa_init_ports(). Maybe a checkpatch exception should
be added for this particular warning.

-quoted string split across lines
These strings were ignored because they otherwise would exceed
80 characters in a single line. These particular strings use
format specifiers, which break the ability to grep for them anyway.

Anton Wuerfel (13):
Phillip Raffeck (13):
tty: serial: 8250: Fix whitespace errors
tty: serial: 8250: Replace spaces with tabs
tty: serial: 8250: Fix braces after struct
tty: serial: 8250: Fix multiline comment style
tty: serial: 8250: Remove else after return
tty: serial: 8250: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL to function
tty: serial: 8250: Fix line continuation warning
tty: serial: 8250: Add parentheses to macro
tty: serial: 8250: Fix multi-line strings
tty: serial: 8250: Removed warning in debug output
tty: serial: 8250: Fix indentation warnings
tty: serial: 8250: Suitably replace printk
tty: serial: 8250: Remove SERIAL_DEBUG_PNP macro

drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_accent.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_acorn.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_boca.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c | 15 ++---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar_st16c554.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fourport.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c | 7 ++-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hp300.c | 26 ++++----
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hub6.c | 2 +-
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c | 12 ++--
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c | 49 +++++++--------
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c | 20 ++++---
drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c | 46 +++++++-------
drivers/tty/serial/8250/serial_cs.c | 89 +++++++++++++++-------------
14 files changed, 145 insertions(+), 131 deletions(-)

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