Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2008 11:27:41 +0000
From: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add iSCSI iBFT support (v0.4.5)
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On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:01:23PM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:

> >  int __initdata user_defined_memmap = 0;
> 
> checkpatch should have told you that this "= 0" shouldn't be there.  But it
> doesn't.

Ok, this line would be correctly picked up if it was being added by this
author, but this line is in the context only.  We do not blame the current
author for those.

ERROR: do not initialise externals to 0 or NULL
#1: FILE: Z57.c:1:
+int __initdata user_defined_memmap = 0;

> > +	for (pos = (u8 *)hdr; pos < (u8 *)hdr + len; pos ++)
> 
> checkpatch should have caught the " ++" but didn't.  I think it used to. 
> It seems to be going backwards?

Somehow this variant was not covered.  Added to the tests and to the
next version:

ERROR: no space before that '++' (ctx:WxB)
#3: FILE: Z57.c:3:
+       for (pos = (u8 *)hdr; pos < (u8 *)hdr + len; pos ++)

-apw
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