Re: [PATCH] Staging: wlan-ng: Fix Alignment should match open paranthesis in prism2mgmt.c

[Joe Perches]

On Fri, 2018-02-16 at 15:36 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 16, 2018 at 12:18:36AM +0530, Yash Omer wrote:
> > This is patch fixes up a matching paranthesis alignment issue found by checkpatch.pl script.
[]
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c b/drivers/staging/wlan-ng/prism2mgmt.c
[]
> > @@ -264,8 +264,8 @@ int prism2mgmt_scan(struct wlandevice *wlandev, void *msgp)
> >  			goto exit;
> >  		}
> >  		/* ibss options */
> > -		result = hfa384x_drvr_setconfig16(hw,
> > -					HFA384x_RID_CREATEIBSS,
> > +		result = hfa384x_drvr_setconfig16
> > +					(hw, HFA384x_RID_CREATEIBSS,
> 
> The original code is just fine, why is checkpatch complaining about
> this?

lack of argument alignment to parentheses.

Maybe wlan-ng should be marked obsolete in MAINTAINERS.