Re: [PATCHv2] staging: wlan-ng: fix avoid multiple line dereference warning reported by checkpatch.pl
From: Andrii
Date: Sun Mar 12 2017 - 11:53:54 EST
On Sun, 12 Mar 2017 16:42:07 +0100
Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2017 at 05:30:09PM +0200, Andrii wrote:
> > Fixed three code style warnings (multiple line dereference) reported
> > by checkpatch.pl script.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrii Vladyka <tulup@xxxxxxx>
>
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
> > b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c index 6134eba..a050748
> > 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/hfa384x_usb.c
> > @@ -1346,14 +1346,8 @@ hfa384x_docmd(struct hfa384x *hw,
> > } else if (mode == DOWAIT) {
> > struct usbctlx_cmd_completor completor;
> >
> > - result =
> > - hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(hw, ctlx,
> > -
> > init_cmd_completor(&completor,
> > -
> > &ctlx->
> > -
> > inbuf.
> > -
> > cmdresp,
> > -
> > &cmd->
> > -
> > result));
> > + result = hfa384x_usbctlx_complete_sync(hw, ctlx,
> > + init_cmd_completor(&completor, &ctlx->inbuf.cmdresp,
> > &cmd->result))
>
> Hm, did you run your patch through checkpatch? There's no way that
> his code is correct :(
>
> greg k-h
Yes, I did. The code is correct. Checkpatch now reports "Alignment
should match open parenthesis" CHECK, which is obviously better than
original WARNING.
Regards,
Andrii