Subject: Re: [PATCH 37/54] md/raid5: Replace a seq_printf() call by seq_puts()
 in raid5_status()
To: Joe Perches <coupons@perches.com>
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From: SF Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
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Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2016 19:09:29 +0200
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>> diff --git a/drivers/md/raid5.c b/drivers/md/raid5.c
> []
>> @@ -7044,7 +7044,7 @@ static void raid5_status(struct seq_file *seq, struct mddev *mddev)
>>  			   rdev && test_bit(In_sync, &rdev->flags) ? "U" : "_");
>>  	}
>>  	rcu_read_unlock();
>> -	seq_printf (seq, "]");
>> +	seq_puts(seq, "]");
> 
> seq_putc

Thanks for your update suggestion.

How do you think about the possibility that the script "checkpatch.pl" can also point
such a source code transformation out directly?
Would an additional check for the length of the passed string be useful in similar
use cases?

Regards,
Markus