Re: [PATCH] staging: ralink-gdma: Fix checkpatch.pl CHECK

[Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>]

On Wed, Feb 10, 2021 at 05:33:48PM +0530, Aakash Hemadri wrote:
> Remove CHECK: Lines should not end with a '('
> 
> Signed-off-by: Aakash Hemadri <aakashhemadri123@gmail.com>
> ---
> 
>  drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c | 28 ++++++++++++-----------
>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c b/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c
> index 655df317d0ee..a11f915f3308 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/ralink-gdma/ralink-gdma.c
> @@ -135,8 +135,7 @@ struct gdma_data {
>  	int (*start_transfer)(struct gdma_dmaengine_chan *chan);
>  };
> 
> -static struct gdma_dma_dev *gdma_dma_chan_get_dev(
> -	struct gdma_dmaengine_chan *chan)
> +static struct gdma_dma_dev *gdma_dma_chan_get_dev(struct gdma_dmaengine_chan *chan)
>  {
>  	return container_of(chan->vchan.chan.device, struct gdma_dma_dev,
>  		ddev);
> @@ -510,10 +509,11 @@ static void gdma_dma_issue_pending(struct dma_chan *c)
>  	spin_unlock_irqrestore(&chan->vchan.lock, flags);
>  }
> 
> -static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor *gdma_dma_prep_slave_sg(
> -		struct dma_chan *c, struct scatterlist *sgl,
> -		unsigned int sg_len, enum dma_transfer_direction direction,
> -		unsigned long flags, void *context)
> +static struct dma_async_tx_descriptor
> +	*gdma_dma_prep_slave_sg(struct dma_chan *c, struct scatterlist *sgl,

Don't do it like this...  The original code is better so, I guess, lets
leave it as is.  There are two accepted ways to start a function in the
kernel:

ONE:
static type
function_name(paramenters)

TWO
static type function_name(paramenters)

Either option will let you grep for the names of the functions:

	egrep "^[a-zA-Z]" dir/file.c | grep '('

regards,
dan carpenter