Re: [PATCH] Fix line too long warning

[Kien Ha]

On Sun, 2017-10-29 at 18:54 +0300, Yury Norov wrote:
> Hi Kien,
> 
> On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 10:46:13PM -0400, Kien Ha wrote:
> > > From fc52a98aca0c033f2c03fdc7e8f83ae49625675a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00
> > > 2001
> > 
> > From: Kien Ha <kienha9922@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2017 14:07:55 -0400
> > Subject: [PATCH] Fix line too long warning
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Kien Ha <kienha9922@xxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtlwifi/base.c | 3 ++-
> >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/base.c
> > b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/base.c
> > index b88b0e8edd3d..bbc80f976e12 100644
> > --- a/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/base.c
> > +++ b/drivers/staging/rtlwifi/base.c
> > @@ -1283,7 +1283,8 @@ void rtl_get_tcb_desc(struct ieee80211_hw
> > *hw,
> >  				} else {
> >  					if (rtlmac->mode ==
> > WIRELESS_MODE_B) {
> >  						tcb_desc->hw_rate
> > =
> > -						    rtlpriv->cfg-
> > >maps[RTL_RC_CCK_RATE11M];
> > +						    rtlpriv->cfg-
> > >maps[
> > +						    RTL_RC_CCK_RAT
> > E11M];
> 
> At first, if you fix this, you should also fix similar problem 3
> lines
> below, right?
> 
> >  					} else {
> >  						tcb_desc->hw_rate
> > =
> >  						    rtlpriv->cfg-
> > >maps[RTL_RC_OFDM_RATE54M];
> 
> At second, and most important, refer Documentation/process/coding-
> style.rst:
> Now, some people will claim that having 8-character indentations
> makes
> the code move too far to the right, and makes it hard to read on a 
> 80-character terminal screen.  The answer to that is that if you
> need 
> more than 3 levels of indentation, you're screwed anyway, and should
> fix
> your program.
> 
> The real problem here is not "line too long", but "indentation level
> too
> big" - 5. And it worth to address real problem.
> 
> Yury

Thank you for taking some of your time to review my patch, providing
valuable feedback and pointing me in the right direction Joe and Yury.
I submitted another patch with improved code based on your
suggestions.