On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 11:18:17PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote: > On Thu, 2018-10-25 at 09:05 +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2018 at 05:05:53PM +0200, Aleksa Zdravkovic wrote: > > > This patch fixes the checkpatch.pl warning: > [] > > > diff --git a/drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c > > > b/drivers/staging/axis-fifo/axis-fifo.c > [] > > > @@ -482,10 +482,10 @@ static ssize_t axis_fifo_write(struct file *f, > > > const char __user *buf, > > > spin_lock_irq(&fifo->write_queue_lock); > > > ret = wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout > > > (fifo->write_queue, > > > - ioread32(fifo->base_addr + XLLF_TDFV_OFFSET) > > > + ioread32(fifo->base_addr + XLLF_TDFV_OFFSET) > > > >= words_to_write, > > > - fifo->write_queue_lock, > > > - (write_timeout >= 0) ? msecs_to_jiffies(write_timeout) > > > : > > > + fifo->write_queue_lock, > > > + (write_timeout >= 0) ? msecs_to_jiffies(write_timeout) : > > > MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT); > > > > The original was fine. Just leave it. > > > > Checkpatch.pl is only useful if it improves the readability for humans. > > True, but I think the original is just OK. > > Any suggestion on how to make the thing better? > > wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout is a fairly long > identifier with multiple long arguments. > > It's as if it should be written here as > > ret = > wait_event_interruptible_lock_irq_timeout(fifo->write_queue, > > ioread32(fifo->base_addr + XLLF_TDFV_OFFSET) >= words_to_write, > > fifo->write_queue_lock, > write_timeout > >= 0 ? msecs_to_jiffies(write_timeout) : MAX_SCHEDULE_TIMEOUT); > > where the longest is way over 80 chars, (140?) but I simply don't care > because it's just that much more readable for me. > >
Thank you Dan and Joe for your feedback. I don't have any suggestion how to improve this code otherwise. I will try to find a way to improve it. Maybe we can define some macros but I don't think it would help much. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list de...@linuxdriverproject.org http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel
