[PATCH] Staging : android: binder.c: Prefer seq_puts to seq_printf

Joe Perches joe at perches.com
Wed Oct 2 06:35:38 UTC 2013


On Wed, 2013-10-02 at 15:15 +1000, Ryan Mallon wrote:
> On 02/10/13 11:57, Mathieu Rhéaume wrote:
> > This patch changes seq_printf for seq_puts in binder.c.
> > It fixes the warnings emitted by checkpatch.pl.
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> Umm, this won't compile. seq_puts() is defined as:
> 
>   int seq_puts(struct seq_file *m, const char *s);
> 
> checkpatch.pl does indeed complain about uses of seq_printf() in
> drivers/staging/android/binder.c which are passing formatted strings. At
> a quick glance it looks like checkpatch.pl is only checking for the
> format string on the same line as seq_printf(), so this files ugly
> coding style confuses the check. Joe?

True.

This patch should have fixed it.  It's in -next already.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/9/13/698

> Anyway, please don't blindly change things in the kernel without at
> least compile testing them.

Yes, please.



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