Re: [PATCH] staging: fbtft: fix alignment should match open parenthesis

From: David Reaver
Date: Sat Jun 25 2022 - 22:59:43 EST



Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> On Sat, 2022-06-25 at 19:00 -0700, David Reaver wrote:
>> Fix alignment of this line of code with the previous parenthesis, as
>> suggested by checkpatch.pl:
> []
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tinylcd.c b/drivers/staging/fbtft/fb_tinylcd.c
> []
>> @@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ static int init_display(struct fbtft_par *par)
>> write_reg(par, 0xE5, 0x00);
>> write_reg(par, 0xF0, 0x36, 0xA5, 0x53);
>> write_reg(par, 0xE0, 0x00, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00,
>> - 0x00, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);
>> + 0x00, 0x35, 0x33, 0x00, 0x00, 0x00);
>
> It's probably better to ignore the message in this case as the first
> argument means something and the second and subsequent are the data
> being written via a specific macro using NUMARGS.

Thanks for taking a look Joe! That makes sense. I'm new to the kernel
and running checkpath.pl on staging drivers was suggested as a good
place to start contributing, but I'll keep a more careful eye out next
time and not follow checkpath blindly.