Re: [PATCH 3/3] PCI: tegra: make const array err_msg static

[Christophe JAILLET]

Le 06/07/2021 à 00:31, Krzysztof Wilczyński a écrit :
> Hi Christophe,
>
> Thank you for sending the patches over and taking care about these!
>
> I was wondering whether you will be willing to send a v2 of this series
> that would include fixes to everything the checkpatch.pl script reports
> against this driver?  There aren't a lot of things to fix, thus the idea
> to squash everything at once.  These warnings would be as follows
> (excluding the ones you taken care of in this series):
>
>    drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c:1661: WARNING: please, no space before tabs
>    drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c:1890: WARNING: quoted string split across lines
>    drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c:1891: WARNING: quoted string split across lines
>    drivers/pci/controller/pci-tegra.c:2619: WARNING: Symbolic permissions 'S_IRUGO' are not preferred. Consider using octal permissions '0444'.
>
> These should be trivial to fix.  The two pertaining to "quoted string
> split across lines" would be something that we might or might not decide
> to do anything about this - technically, as per the Linux kernel coding
> style [1], we ought to fix this... but, this particular case is not
> a terrible example, so I will leave this at your discretion.
>
> What do you think?

Hi,
I don't think it worth it.

Even for patch 2/3 about 'seq_printf' --> 'seq_puts' conversion, I'm not 
fully convinced myself that is useful.

Too trivial clean-ups only mess-up 'git blame' for no real added value.

If you want these clean-ups, I can send a patch for it, but checkpatch 
output need sometimes to be ignored on files already in the tree. At 
least, this is my point of view.

CJ



> Also, don't worry if you don't have the time or otherwise, as these are
> trivial things and it would only be a bonus to take care of them.
>
> 1. https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.10/process/coding-style.html#breaking-long-lines-and-strings
>
> 	Krzysztof