Re: [PATCHv2] staging: wlan-ng: fix avoid multiple line dereference warning reported by checkpatch.pl

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Mar 29 2017 - 03:33:12 EST


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))

Ick, no, that doesn't look right, does it?

Please use your brain when making checkpatch changes, it's just a dumb
perl script...

greg k-h