Re: [PATCH] HID: core: clean up indentation issue

[Benjamin Tissoires]

On Wed, Sep 25, 2019 at 1:48 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Sep 23, 2019 at 01:04:13PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Sep 2019, Colin King wrote:
> >
> > > From: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > >
> > > There is an if statement that is indented by one extra space,
> > > fix this by removing the extraneous space.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Colin Ian King <colin.king@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/hid/hid-core.c | 4 ++--
> > >  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > >
> > > diff --git a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > > index 3eaee2c37931..9469c382a182 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > > +++ b/drivers/hid/hid-core.c
> > > @@ -2329,10 +2329,10 @@ int hid_add_device(struct hid_device *hdev)
> > >     /*
> > >      * Check for the mandatory transport channel.
> > >      */
> > > -    if (!hdev->ll_driver->raw_request) {
> > > +   if (!hdev->ll_driver->raw_request) {
> > >             hid_err(hdev, "transport driver missing .raw_request()\n");
> > >             return -EINVAL;
> > > -    }
> > > +   }
> >
> > Let's not pollute git blame and wait for an ocasion when we need to touch
> > the code for some more valid reason.
>
> Just use `git blame -w`.
>
> This probably came from a Smatch warning.  Smatch warns very seldom
> warns about style issues, but in this case the indenting is legitimately
> bad.

Well, I tend to agree with Jiri here. Yes, you can use a particular
flag in a tool to 'solve' the git blame/history issue, but this is
putting the workload on the user, while tthe code is fine, in this
case. Why do we need to pollute the history of a file for no good
reasons?

Cheers,
Benjamin