Re: [PATCH] staging: greybus: Parenthesis alignment

[Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>]

On Wed, 2018-11-21 at 15:58 +1100, NeilBrown wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 18 2018, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> > On Sun, 2018-11-18 at 20:28 +0100, Cristian Sicilia wrote:
> > > Some parameters are aligned with parentheses.
> > > Some parentheses are opened at end of line.
> > 
> > Given the very long identifier lengths, I wouldn't
> > consider many of these appropriate.
> > 
> > 80 column line lengths and long identifiers don't
> > play well together.
> > 
> > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c b/drivers/staging/greybus/audio_codec.c
> > 
> > []
> > > @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ static int gbaudio_module_enable_tx(struct gbaudio_codec_info *codec,
> > >  		i2s_port = 0;	/* fixed for now */
> > >  		cportid = data->connection->hd_cport_id;
> > >  		ret = gb_audio_apbridgea_register_cport(data->connection,
> > > -						i2s_port, cportid,
> > > +							i2s_port, cportid,
> > >  						AUDIO_APBRIDGEA_DIRECTION_TX);
> 
> My preferred formatting in this situation is
> 
>   		ret = gb_audio_apbridgea_register_cport(
>                 	data->connection,
>  			i2s_port, cportid,
> 			AUDIO_APBRIDGEA_DIRECTION_TX);

Odd mixing of spacing and tabs in your example here.

> but checkpatch doesn't like the '(' at the end of the line.
> Do you know why that is?

Generally to avoid function declarations like

static int foo(
	int bar,
	int baz)
{
	...
}

But this also is meant for function calls.

And this obviously does not work well with excessively
long identifiers where a statement or declaration could
not fit in 80 columns.

Perhaps some logic could be added to suggest use of
shorter than some specific longish identifier length.

cheers, Joe