Re: [PATCH] Staging: lustre: Place the open brace on previous line.

[Joe Perches]

On Sat, 2017-07-22 at 22:26 +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> Remove errors by placing the open braces on previous line.
> This saves the vertical space of the code.
> 
> Problem found by checkpatch.

No.  These are checkpatch false positives.

> diff --git a/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/hash.c b/drivers/staging/lustre/lnet/libcfs/hash.c
[]
> @@ -1348,8 +1348,7 @@ cfs_hash_lookup(struct cfs_hash *hs, const void *key)
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(cfs_hash_lookup);
>  
>  static void
> -cfs_hash_for_each_enter(struct cfs_hash *hs)
> -{
> +cfs_hash_for_each_enter(struct cfs_hash *hs) {
>  	LASSERT(!cfs_hash_is_exiting(hs));
>  
>  	if (!cfs_hash_with_rehash(hs))

etc...

These are correctly written function definitions.