Re: [PATCH] This commit fixes the following checkpatch.pl errors and warnings : >>ERROR: switch and case should be at the same indent + switch (whence) { + case 1: [...] + case 0: [...] + default:

[Greg KH]

On Fri, May 21, 2021 at 11:18:57AM +0530, aviral14112001 wrote:
> >>ERROR: code indent should use tabs where possible
> +                              void (*callback)(struct dentry *))$
> 
> >>WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_warn([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_warn(dev, ... then pr_warn(...  to printk(KERN_WARNING ...
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s passed in a files array"
> 
> >>WARNING: break quoted strings at a space character
> +			printk(KERN_WARNING "%s: %s passed in a files array"
> +				"with an index of 1!\n", __func__,
> 
> >>WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0600'.
> +	root->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUSR | S_IWUSR;
> 
> >>WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
> +			loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
> 
> >>WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
> +			loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags,
> 
> >>WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
> +		unsigned from = pos & (PAGE_SIZE - 1);
> 
> >>WARNING: Block comments use a trailing */ on a separate line
> + * to set the attribute specific access operations. */
> 
> >>WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0555'.
> +	inode->i_mode = S_IFDIR | S_IRUGO | S_IXUGO;
> 
> >>Several other warnings (WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations)
> 
> Signed-off-by: aviral14112001 <shiv14112001@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>  fs/libfs.c | 66 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------
>  1 file changed, 37 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)
> 

Hi,

This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
kernel tree.

You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s)
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- Your patch did many different things all at once, making it difficult
  to review.  All Linux kernel patches need to only do one thing at a
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  style issues in a file/driver), do it in a sequence of patches, each
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- You did not specify a description of why the patch is needed, or
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- You did not write a descriptive Subject: for the patch, allowing Greg,
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