Re: [PATCH] staging: iio: adc: ad7280a: fix 2 checks

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 03:33:37 EST


On Sat, Oct 06, 2018 at 10:25:42PM +0200, Slawomir Stepien wrote:
> On paÅ 06, 2018 13:27, Gabriel Capella wrote:
> > This patch does not change the logic, it only
> > corrects the checkpatch checks.
> >
> > The patch fixes 2 checks of type:
> > "CHECK: spaces preferred around that '-'"
>
> I've made the same mistake few days ago. This change is incorrect.
> Please see: https://lore.kernel.org/patchwork/patch/635994/.
>

You could add a comment. /* do not put spaces around the hyphen. #checkpatch.pl */

These are the only places which use this style and a lot of people
bump into it.

regards,
dan carpenter