Re: [PATCH] hwmon: (aquacomputer_d5next) Fix alignment of function call params

From: Aleksa Savic
Date: Wed Apr 12 2023 - 01:18:17 EST


On 2023-04-11 22:19:21 GMT+02:00, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 08:26:32PM +0200, Aleksa Savic wrote:
>> On 2023-04-10 18:53:08 GMT+02:00, Guenter Roeck wrote:
>>>
>>> I am not sure I understand how this would improve readability.
>>> It seems to accomplish the opposite. Sure, I know, checkpatch --strict
>>> complains, but that is still better than unreadable code just to make
>>> checkpatch happy.
>>>
>>> Guenter
>>
>> Both seemed fine to me, the idea was to fix the checkpatch warning.
>> If it's OK for it to complain about this, plus the changes would make it
>> harder to read, please ignore this patch.
>>
>
> checkpatch is useful, but not in situations where following its guidance
> results in code which is diffficult to read. I run checkpatch --strict when
> applying patches, so I do notice when it complains. If I want a report
> to be addressed, I'll say that (such as, for example, when people are
> overly generous with empty lines). If not, you can assume that I am ok with
> the report and find it more important to have readable code than being
> checkpatch-clean.
>
> Guenter

That clears it up, thanks!

Aleksa