Re: [PATCH RFC v2 4/4] PCI: hotplug: Add quirk For Dell nvme pcie switches

From: Joe Perches
Date: Thu Feb 21 2019 - 20:20:26 EST


On Thu, 2019-02-21 at 18:35 +0000, Alex_Gagniuc@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On 2/21/19 1:57 AM, Lukas Wunner wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 07:20:30PM -0600, Alexandru Gagniuc wrote:
> > > --- a/drivers/pci/hotplug/pciehp_hpc.c
> > >
> > > +}
> > > +
> > > +DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_FINAL(PCI_VENDOR_ID_PLX, 0x9733,
> >
> > By convention there's no blank line between the closing curly brace
> > and the DECLARE_PCI_FIXUP_CLASS_FINAL().

Not completely true.
See: arch/mips/pci/fixup-loongson3.c

> I'm sorry for all the style issues. I realize it's noise and should just
> be done right from the beginning. Is there a way to make checkpatch.pl
> catch these before they go out?

You could write a new rule, but it's non trivial as
there are multiple consecutive uses and multi-line
uses too.

I think it's a rule not worth writing.