Re: [PATCH v6 00/15] tty: serial: 8250: Fix checkpatch warnings

[Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>]

On Wed, 2016-01-13 at 22:29 +0100, Anton Wuerfel wrote:
> Hello Andy,
> 
> > Also, please thin out the Cc list, I would recommend remove just
> > ordinary commiters (with maybe few exceptions) and leave
> > maintainers. 
> > Moreover some addresses are bounced.
> I thinned out the Cc list and left over only maintainers and major
> contributors to the code.
> 
> > Yep!
> > However, you forgot to fix switch-case as well.
> Phillip and me are kind of git magicians. We can make code disappear
> during
> rebase :-) The piece of code was part of a commit, but it never made
> it into
> the final patch file.
>  
> I hope, there are no major issues with our patch set.

There are comments regarding patch 12, otherwise FWIW:

Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>


> 
> Regards,
> Anton Wuerfel
> Phillip Raffeck
> 
> This patch set fixes several checkpatch warnings in tty/serial/8250.
> 
> Patch 1/15:  Adds missing spaces (mainly to function/macro headers)
> Patch 2/15:  Replace spaces with tabs wherever possible
> Patch 3/15:  Slight patch which moves an opening curly brace
> Patch 4/15:  Fixes multiline comment style
> Patch 5/15:  Removes else blocks after return statements
> Patch 6/15:  Slight patch which moves EXPORT_SYMBOL macro to correct
> position
> Patch 7/15:  Slight patch which removes an unneccessary line
> continuation
> Patch 8/15:  Slight patch which adds parentheses to a macro
> definition
> Patch 9/15:  Merges user-visible multiline strings to a single line
> Patch 10/15: Replace printk by dev_* or pr_* where appropriate
> Patch 11/15: Remove orphaned debug macro
> Patch 12/15: Fix warnings in dev_dbg by adding two casts
> Patch 13/15: Fixes code indentation
> Patch 14/15: Add a generic port macro
> Patch 15/15: Refactor a switch/case statement
> 
> Remaining checkpatch warnings after applying this patch series:
> 
> -line over 80 characters
> 	This error mostly occurs in serial_cs.c, which contains long-
> lined
> 	macro calls. However, splitting these calls into multiple lines
> would
> 	not increase readability.
> 
> -externs should be avoided in .c files
> 	This occurs in 8250_hp300.c. There is no corresponding header
> file
> 	the extern statement could be moved to. It could be moved to
> 8250.h
> 	but this would affect other .c files.
> 
> -Use #include <linux/*.h> instead of <asm/*.h>
> 	This warning has been left open for more experienced kernel
> hackers.
> 	This patch series is about style issues. We do not intend to
> alter
> 	the code behavior.
> -struct uart_ops should normally be const
> 	This warning only occurs in 8250_core.c. The corresponding
> struct
> 	cannot be declared as const because it is altered in
> 	serial8250_isa_init_ports(). Maybe a checkpatch exception
> should
> 	be added for this particular warning.
> 
> -quoted string split across lines
> 	These strings were ignored because they otherwise would exceed
> 	80 characters in a single line. These particular strings use
> 	format specifiers, which break the ability to grep for them
> anyway.
> 
> Anton Wuerfel (15):
> Phillip Raffeck (15):
>   tty: serial: 8250: Fix whitespace errors
>   tty: serial: 8250: Replace spaces with tabs
>   tty: serial: 8250: Fix braces after struct
>   tty: serial: 8250: Fix multiline comment style
>   tty: serial: 8250: Remove else after return
>   tty: serial: 8250: Move EXPORT_SYMBOL to function
>   tty: serial: 8250: Fix line continuation warning
>   tty: serial: 8250: Add parentheses to macro
>   tty: serial: 8250: Fix multi-line strings
>   tty: serial: 8250: Correct conversion specifiers
>   tty: serial: 8250: Merge duplicate conditions
>   tty: serial: 8250: Fix indentation warnings
>   tty: serial: 8250: Add generic port init macro
>   tty: serial: 8250: Suitably replace printk
>   tty: serial: 8250: Remove SERIAL_DEBUG_PNP macro
> 
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250.h               | 12 ++++
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_accent.c        | 13 +---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_acorn.c         |  2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_boca.c          | 41 ++++++-------
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_core.c          | 15 ++---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_exar_st16c554.c | 17 ++----
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_fourport.c      | 28 ++++-----
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_gsc.c           |  7 ++-
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hp300.c         | 27 +++++----
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_hub6.c          |  2 +-
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_ingenic.c       | 12 ++--
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pci.c           | 60 ++++++++++------
> ---
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_pnp.c           | 28 +++++----
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/8250_port.c          | 47 ++++++++-------
>  drivers/tty/serial/8250/serial_cs.c          | 90 +++++++++++++++---
> ----------
>  15 files changed, 203 insertions(+), 198 deletions(-)
> 

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Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Intel Finland Oy