Re: [PATCH] staging: vme_user: fix check alignment should match open parenthesis

[Greg KH]

On Mon, Aug 07, 2023 at 12:13:40PM -0300, Alexon Oliveira wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2023 at 08:14:33AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Aug 04, 2023 at 06:20:50PM -0300, Alexon Oliveira wrote:
> > > Fixed all CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
> > > as reported by checkpatch to adhere to the Linux kernel
> > > coding-style guidelines.
> > 
> > This does not describe the changes you actually made in this patch :(
> > 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thank you for your feedback. Don't get me wrong, please, I'm just trying
> to understand it now, but honestly I don't know what is wrong with
> it this time. I described exactly what I did in the code: ran the
> checkpatch, which identified a lot of "CHECK: Alignment should match
> open parenthesis" messages, fixed them all according to the coding-style
> guidelines and comitted it.

But you did not change the alignment of the open parenthesis, right?
You deleted the trailing whitespace.

> 
> This is the same thing I did previously for the file
> drivers/staging/vme_user/vme_bridge.h in the commit
> 7d5ce25fb4c3cc91d16e27163dc141de0eba213b, but now is the file
> drivers/staging/vme_user/vme.c and commit
> a1f0b0a8ba9a496504c2e3d4b37cee388e78f0ea. Different files,
> different commits, similar fixes for the same warnings,
> and same description.
> 
> The only thing I found strange is because instead of starting a new
> email thread it ended up in the same email thread as the previous
> patch. Would that be the problem?

That would be a problem, and it seems you used the same subject line as
previous patches that were different?

Anyway, my comment was about the trailing whitespace change.

thanks,

greg k-h