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From:   Deepak R Varma <drv@mailo.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: most: fix line ending with '('
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On Wed, Mar 22, 2023 at 08:12:23AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> Hi--
> 
> And FTR, I still haven't found anything in coding-style.rst that says that
> lines should not end with an open parenthesis.  Did I overlook it?

Hi Randy,
You are correct. I did not find anything clear or obvious that calls out not
ending the lines with a '(' symbol. 
I think the other guideline from the coding style is to align the overrunning
argument list in the next lines such that they match the arg1 after '('. So, I
think that may be the reason why checkpatch is coded to catch such lines.

Regards,
Deepak.

> 
> Thanks.