Re: [PATCH] scsi: megaraid: cleanup formatting of megaraid

[Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>]

On 1/28/22 12:41 AM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 21:31 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>> On 1/27/22 6:43 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
>>> On Thu, 2022-01-27 at 16:32 -0800, Tom Rix wrote:
>>>> On 1/27/22 2:47 PM, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
>>>>> + Miguel (the clang-format maintainer), Joe (checkpatch maintainer)
>>>>> These criticisms are worth reviewing.
>>>>>
>>>>> On Thu, Jan 27, 2022 at 2:38 PM Finn Thain <fthain@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>>>>>> On Thu, 27 Jan 2022, trix@redhat.com wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> From: Tom Rix <trix@redhat.com>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> checkpatch reports several hundred formatting errors. Run these files
>>>>>>> through clang-format and knock off some of them.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>> That method seems like a good recipe for endless churn unless checkpatch
>>>>>> and clang-format really agree about these style rules.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Why use checkpatch to assess code style, if we could simply diff the
>>>>>> existing source with the output from clang-format... but it seems that
>>>>>> clang-format harms readability, makes indentation errors and uses
>>>>>> inconsistent style rules. Some examples:
>>>> Problems with clang-format should be fixed, I'll take a look.
>>>>
>>>> I was reviewing this file for another isseue and could not get past how
>>>> horredously bad it was and really did not want to manually fix the 400+
>>>> formatting errors.  I will drop this patch and use the use these files
>>>> to verify the .clang-format .
>>> I think this is more an issue with clang-format than with checkpatch.
>>>
>>> If you have specific issues with what checkpatch reports for this
>>> file (or any other file), let me know.
>> Yes, I agree. Its a clang-format problem.
>>
>> I will be looking to minimize the .clang-format settings to only those
>> that agree with checkpatch.
>>
>> Then add settings back in later if their problems can be worked out.
> Another option would be to use:
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> 	./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f --fix[-inplace] [--types=<list>] <files>
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> where types is an optional list of specific things to change
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> see:
> 	./scripts/checkpatch.pl --list-types --verbose
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> to show the possible types.
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> Only some of these types can be changed with --fix or --fix-inplace
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> If using checkpatch to change formatting, it sometimes can be useful
> to run checkpatch --fix multiple times on the same file as a
> checkpatch --fix can create a change than checkpatch will suggest
> should itself be fixed.
>
> Of course another option is to do nothing as many will complain,
> sometimes senselessly, about 'churn'.

A testsuite for the fixers may help with churn

Any interest or thought on organization ?

I can take stab at one.

Tom

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