Re: [PATCH 37/54] md/raid5: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts() in raid5_status()

[Bernd Petrovitsch]

Hi all!

On Thu, 2016-10-06 at 19:49 +0200, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> > diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> > > > []
> > > > > 
> > > > > @@ -7044,7 +7044,7 @@ static void raid5_status(struct
> > > > > seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)
> > > > > Â			ÂÂÂrdev && test_bit(In_sync, &rdev-
> > > > > >flags) ? "U" : "_");
> > > > > Â	}
> > > > > Â	rcu_read_unlock();
> > > > > -	seq_printf (seq, "]");
> > > > > +	seq_puts(seq, "]");
> > > > seq_putc
> > > How do you think about the possibility that the script
> > > "checkpatch.pl" can also point
> > > such a source code transformation out directly?
> > 
> > Why don't _you_ try to implement that in checkpatch instead?
> 
> How are the chances that any other software developer would be
> quicker (than me) for such
> an addition because of more practical knowledge for the programming
> language "Perl"?

The above is BTW a pretty simple thing and thus good for a learning
experience for regular expressions and copy-pasting a few lines in that
perl-script and editing them.

MfG,
	Bernd

PS: Sry for the noise - it's somewhat OT here ....
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