2016-03-01 16:54:50

by Edward Lipinsky

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723au: Fix line longer than 80 columns.

On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 10:48:56AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2016-02-27 at 10:28 -0800, Edward Lipinsky wrote:
> > This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning:
> > WARNING: line over 80 characters
> []
> > diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8723au/core/rtw_ap.c
> []
> > @@ -1834,7 +1834,8 @@ void stop_ap_mode23a(struct rtw_adapter *padapter)
> > ? }
> > ? spin_unlock_bh(&pacl_node_q->lock);
> > ?
> > - DBG_8723A("%s, free acl_node_queue, num =%d\n", __func__, pacl_list->num);
> > + DBG_8723A("%s, free acl_node_queue, num =%d\n", __func__,
> > + ??pacl_list->num);
>
> It's generally nicer to break the line at the end
> of the format sting like:
>
> DBG_8723A("%s, free acl_node_queue, num =%d\n",
> __func__, pacl_list->num);
>
> though it'd be even better to convert all of these
> DBG_8723A uses to pr_debug
>
> $ git ls-files drivers/staging/rtl8723au/ | \
> ? xargs sed -r -i \
> -e 's/\bDBG_8723A\b/pr_debug/g' \
> ? -e 's/\bMSG|8723A\b/pr_debug/g'
>

Thanks for the feedback. I will submit an updated patch.

Ed