Re: [v3,04/11] watchdog/hpwdt: white space changes

[Jerry Hoemann]

On Sat, Feb 17, 2018 at 08:17:34AM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 15, 2018 at 04:43:53PM -0700, Jerry Hoemann wrote:
> > Minor white space changes and some name clean up.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Jerry Hoemann <jerry.hoemann@xxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >  MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE(pci, hpwdt_devices);
> >  
> > @@ -102,7 +100,7 @@ static int hpwdt_time_left(void)
> >  	return TICKS_TO_SECS(ioread16(hpwdt_timer_reg));
> >  }
> >  
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING	/* { */
> >  static int hpwdt_my_nmi(void)
> >  {
> >  	return ioread8(hpwdt_nmistat) & 0x6;
> > @@ -133,7 +131,7 @@ static int hpwdt_pretimeout(unsigned int ulReason, struct pt_regs *regs)
> >  
> >  	return NMI_HANDLED;
> >  }
> > -#endif /* CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING */
> > +#endif					/* } */
> 
> I disagree with those changes. While I don't object to adding the '{'
> per se, I find it very useful to have the 'CONFIG_HPWDT_NMI_DECODING'
> with an endif to be able to associate it with the matching #ifdef.

The matching /* { */ and /* } */ allow for quickly the finding of the
matching ifdef/endif.

In the "vim" editor, the command '%' will take one from one curly paren to its
matching curly paren...

There is a similar sequence for emacs.

> 
> Deferring to Wim.
> 
> Guenter
> 

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Jerry Hoemann                  Software Engineer   Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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