Re: [PATCH 4/5] silicom: checkpatch: trailing statements

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Mon Jun 17 2013 - 11:29:59 EST


On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 04:20:16PM +0200, Lorenz Haspel wrote:
> fixed checkpatch error:
> trailing statements that should be on next line
>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Banken <michael.banken@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lorenz Haspel <lorenz@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c | 14 ++++++++++----
> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c b/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c
> index 78570dd..85aa900 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/silicom/bpctl_mod.c
> @@ -165,7 +165,9 @@ static int bp_device_event(struct notifier_block *unused,
> memcpy(&cbuf, drvinfo.bus_info, 32);
> buf = &cbuf[0];
>
> - while (*buf++ != ':') ;
> + while (*buf != ':')
> + buf++;
> + buf++;


No. This is more complicated than the original. While loops like
this are idiomatic in C. The way to fix this is just to do:

while (*buf++ != ':')
;

Same for the rest, just move the semi-colon down in every case.

regards,
dan carpenter

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