Re: [PATCH] tty: serial: msm: fix checkpatch warnings

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Aug 04 2014 - 17:48:31 EST


On Mon, Aug 04, 2014 at 02:42:02PM -0700, Frank Rowand wrote:
> On 8/4/2014 7:20 AM, Kiran Padwal wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning:
> >
> > WARNING: braces {} are not necessary for any arm of this statement
> >
> > WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
> >
> > WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_err([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_err(dev, ... then pr_err(... to printk(KERN_ERR ...
> >
> > WARNING: Prefer [subsystem eg: netdev]_info([subsystem]dev, ... then dev_info(dev, ... then pr_info(... to printk(KERN_INFO ...
> >
> > WARNING: else is not generally useful after a break or return
> >
> > WARNING: void function return statements are not generally useful
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Kiran Padwal <kiran.padwal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/tty/serial/msm_serial.c | 26 +++++++++++---------------
> > 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-)
>
> Kiran,
>
> I have a series of fix patches against this file that is going to collide
> with your cleanups. Would you mind waiting until after I send my patches
> to do your clean up?

It's a first-come-first served, never ask someone to wait for you to
send your patches, you can't 'lock' a file in the kernel from changes
from others, that way is the death of a project.

So no, Kiran, don't wait :)

thanks,

greg k-h
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