Re: [PATCH] staging: wilc1000: arrays can't be NULL

[Luis de Bethencourt]

On 24/06/16 00:15, Julian Calaby wrote:
> Hi Joe,
> 
> On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:24 AM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Thu, 2016-06-23 at 18:57 +0100, Luis de Bethencourt wrote:
>>> hif_drv->usr_scan_req.net.net_info[i] contains found_net_info structs
>>> which have the following element:
>>> u8 bssid[6];
>> []
>>> I am aware this patch gives a few checkpatch.pl warnings about lines being
>>> over 80 characters. Fixing that would be a completely different issue, and
>>> a lengthy one since the file has loads of them.
>>>
>>> Hopefully somebody else picks that up. Maybe I should send a hit to the
>>> kernelnewbies mailing list :)
>>
>> Or not.
>>
>> really_long_identifiersâ makes using 80 columns silly.
>>
>> The hungarian could probably be converted though.
> 
> The main developers of this driver are slowly working through the
> driver's style issues, which is part of the reason why it's in
> staging.
> 
> Thanks,
> 

I understand Julian,

All the maintainers listed in the MAINTAINERS file are in CC. I will wait for
them to OK the suggestion of sending a patch fixing the Hungarian Notation.

Didn't mean to step on your toes. I just wanted to help.

Code in staging is cared for by a lot of people :)

Luis