Re: Patch

[Daniel Vetter <daniel@ffwll.ch>]

On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 06:36:48PM +0100, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> 2013-11-22 17:35, Arthur Schwalbenberg:
> > 
> > From 340fa01dfe8f699e27ece111996ea088bca6b5c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Arthur Schwalbenberg <aschwal@hotmail.com>
> > Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 19:42:44 -0500
> > Subject: [PATCH] Staging: Fixed compilar warnings and coding style
> > issues in i915_debugfs.c
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8
> > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
> > 
> > This is a patch fixing both a compilar warning:
> > ‘val’ may be used uninitialized in this function
> > and various coding style issues which include line length
> > warnings and a few errors as defined by 'checkpatch.pl' tool
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Arthur Schwalbenberg <aschwal@hotmail.com>
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When you break 80+ lines into two lines, you should also
> indent the newly created line so that it shows that it is a part of something.
> I as well don't think it is worth splitting lines that are 84 characters long into
> two lines, that just doesn't make sense.
> 
> Also, your patch seems (atleast to me) a 'bit' whitespace damaged.

Also, please don't smash different changes into the same patch. Especially
pure whitespace changes _must_ be separate from actual code changes.
-Daniel
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