Re: [PATCH 3/6] tty: serial: amba-pl011: cleanup driver

From: Linus Walleij
Date: Thu Oct 26 2023 - 09:38:41 EST


On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 12:41 PM Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


> Follow recommandations from:
>
> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl --strict --file \
> drivers/tty/serial/amba-pl011.c
>
> It does NOT fix alerts relative to TIOCMBIT which will be dealt with in
> another patch. Fixes following alerts:
>
> CHECK: Alignment should match open parenthesis
> CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary after an open brace '{'
> CHECK: Comparison to NULL could be written [...]
> CHECK: Lines should not end with a '('
> CHECK: Please don't use multiple blank lines
> CHECK: Please use a blank line after function/struct/union/enum declarations
> CHECK: Prefer using the BIT macro
> CHECK: Unbalanced braces around else statement
> CHECK: Unnecessary parentheses around [...]
> CHECK: braces {} should be used on all arms of this statement
> CHECK: spaces preferred around that '/' (ctx:VxV)
> CHECK: spaces preferred around that '|' (ctx:VxV)
> ERROR: do not initialise statics to false
> WARNING: Comparisons should place the constant on the right side of the test
> WARNING: Possible unnecessary 'out of memory' message
> WARNING: Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'
> WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_info([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_info(dev, ... then pr_info(... to printk(KERN_INFO ...
> WARNING: quoted string split across lines
>
> Signed-off-by: Théo Lebrun <theo.lebrun@xxxxxxxxxxx>

These look harmless enough to me.
Reviewed-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@xxxxxxxxxx>

Yours,
Linus Walleij