Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid

[Joe Perches]

On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 21:31 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> On 1/27/22 6:43 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 16:32 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
> > > On 1/27/22 2:47 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > > > + Miguel (the clang-format maintainer), Joe (checkpatch maintainer)
> > > > These criticisms are worth reviewing.
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 2:38 PM Finn Thain <fthain@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > > On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, trix@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > 
> > > > > > From: Tom Rix <trix@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > checkpatch reports several hundred formatting errors. Run these files
> > > > > > through clang-format and knock off some of them.
> > > > > > 
> > > > > That method seems like a good recipe for endless churn unless checkpatch
> > > > > and clang-format really agree about these style rules.
> > > > > 
> > > > > Why use checkpatch to assess code style, if we could simply diff the
> > > > > existing source with the output from clang-format... but it seems that
> > > > > clang-format harms readability, makes indentation errors and uses
> > > > > inconsistent style rules. Some examples:
> > > Problems with clang-format should be fixed, I'll take a look.
> > > 
> > > I was reviewing this file for another isseue and could not get past how
> > > horredously bad it was and really did not want to manually fix the 400+
> > > formatting errors.  I will drop this patch and use the use these files
> > > to verify the .clang-format .
> > I think this is more an issue with clang-format than with checkpatch.
> > 
> > If you have specific issues with what checkpatch reports for this
> > file (or any other file), let me know.
> 
> Yes, I agree. Its a clang-format problem.
> 
> I will be looking to minimize the .clang-format settings to only those 
> that agree with checkpatch.
> 
> Then add settings back in later if their problems can be worked out.

Another option would be to use:

	./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix[-inplace] [--types=<list>] <files>

where types is an optional list of specific things to change

see:
	./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types --verbose

to show the possible types.

Only some of these types can be changed with --fix or --fix-inplace

If using checkpatch to change formatting, it sometimes can be useful
to run checkpatch --fix multiple times on the same file as a
checkpatch --fix can create a change than checkpatch will suggest
should itself be fixed.

Of course another option is to do nothing as many will complain,
sometimes senselessly, about 'churn'.