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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik•org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft•net>
Cc: shemminger@linux-foundation•org, netdev@vger•kernel.org,
	Ariel.Hendel@sun•com, greg.onufer@sun•com,
	Ashley.Saulsbury@sun•com, Matheos.Worku@sun•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: Third (final?) release of Sun Neptune driver
Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2007 17:14:31 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4706A937.3060304@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071005.141217.41646184.davem@davemloft.net>

David Miller wrote:
> From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation•org>
> Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2007 08:40:36 -0700
> 
>> WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for single statement blocks
>> #691: FILE: drivers/net/niu.c:603:
>> +	if (lp->loopback_mode == LOOPBACK_PHY) {
>> +		test_cfg_val |= ((ENET_TEST_MD_PAD_LOOPBACK <<
>> +				  ENET_SERDES_TEST_MD_0_SHIFT) |
>> +				 (ENET_TEST_MD_PAD_LOOPBACK <<
>> +				  ENET_SERDES_TEST_MD_1_SHIFT) |
>> +				 (ENET_TEST_MD_PAD_LOOPBACK <<
>> +				  ENET_SERDES_TEST_MD_2_SHIFT) |
>> +				 (ENET_TEST_MD_PAD_LOOPBACK <<
>> +				  ENET_SERDES_TEST_MD_3_SHIFT));
>> +	}
> 
> This is why I don't run checkpatch on my work.

IMO it -is- useful.

You just have to ignore some of its complaints.  Part of my coding style 
includes the multiple assignment thing that checkpatch complains about:

	status =
	msi->status = br32(QDMA_STAT);

and I am not going to stop doing that just because checkpatch complains :)


> This statement is a "single statement" but it's broken up
> into multiple lines for readability, and it make perfect
> sense to put braces around this basic block so it's easier
> for humans to see what's going on.

Strongly agreed.

	Jeff




  reply	other threads:[~2007-10-05 21:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-10-05 10:12 [PATCH]: Third (final?) release of Sun Neptune driver David Miller
2007-10-05 15:35 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 22:49   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 22:54   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:31     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 22:56   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:07   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:24   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:32     ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 23:27   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 15:39 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 21:12   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:18     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 23:30       ` David Miller
2007-10-05 15:40 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 21:12   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:14     ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2007-10-05 21:21       ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-05 21:40         ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:38       ` David Miller
2007-10-05 23:42   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 15:43 ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-06  0:04   ` David Miller
2007-10-06  0:28     ` Stephen Hemminger
2007-10-06  0:46       ` David Miller
2007-10-06  8:32       ` Johannes Berg
2007-10-05 16:46 ` Ingo Oeser
2007-10-05 16:49   ` Ingo Oeser
2007-10-06  0:08     ` David Miller
2007-10-08 16:04       ` Oliver Hartkopp
2007-10-05 16:55   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-05 17:45   ` Matheos Worku
2007-10-05 21:18   ` David Miller
2007-10-05 21:20   ` David Miller
     [not found]   ` <470677A0.5060502@sun.com>
2007-10-05 21:24     ` David Miller
2007-10-05 22:18   ` Matheos Worku
2007-10-05 22:43     ` David Miller
2007-10-06  0:10   ` David Miller
2007-10-08 16:01 ` Oliver Hartkopp
2007-10-08 23:08   ` David Miller

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