[PATCH] Staging: bcm: CmHost: moved and removed declarations and tmp bracing.

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Mon Mar 17 23:28:13 UTC 2014


On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 06:01:24PM -0400, Gary Rookard wrote:
> Firstly, some background is needed to confirm the validity of
> this patch as error fixing. It seems the developer when writing
> this driver from scratch, used what are known to me as error 
> suppressors in the form of extra tmp bracing added to the case labels.
> They aid during construction time, but are not intended to remain.
> 
> In this scenario there are declarations occupying space only
> reserved for statements. If these tmp braces were to be removed
> before the declarations in question were reassigned to there
> proper place in the funtion, compile time errors would result.
> 
> So, having that said, I moved the declarations,
> UINT uiSearchRuleIndex = 0; and ULONG ulSFID;,
> and also deleted the duplicates thereof from 
> the switch/case statement.
> 
> Removed temporary bracing from case labels.
> 
> Removed new lines as needed.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gary Rookard <garyrookard at gmail.com>
> 
> ---
> On branch staging-next
>  drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c | 27 +++------------------------
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c b/drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c
> index cc82588..b3002d7 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/bcm/CmHost.c
> @@ -1635,7 +1635,8 @@ bool CmControlResponseMessage(struct bcm_mini_adapter *Adapter,  /* <Pointer to
>  	struct bcm_add_indication_alt *pstAddIndication = NULL;
>  	struct bcm_change_indication *pstChangeIndication = NULL;
>  	struct bcm_leader *pLeader = NULL;
> -
> +	UINT uiSearchRuleIndex = 0;
> +	ULONG ulSFID;
>  	/*

You forgot to add a line after the variable and before the comment here
:(

>  	 * Otherwise the message contains a target address from where we need to
>  	 * read out the rest of the service flow param structure
> @@ -1658,7 +1659,6 @@ bool CmControlResponseMessage(struct bcm_mini_adapter *Adapter,  /* <Pointer to
>  	BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_PRINTK, 0, 0, "### TID RECEIVED %d\n", pstAddIndication->u16TID);
>  	switch (pstAddIndication->u8Type) {
>  	case DSA_REQ:
> -	{
>  		pLeader->PLength = sizeof(struct bcm_add_indication_alt);
>  		BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, CONN_MSG, DBG_LVL_ALL, "Sending DSA Response....\n");
>  		BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, CONN_MSG, DBG_LVL_ALL, "SENDING DSA RESPONSE TO MAC %d", pLeader->PLength);
> @@ -1669,10 +1669,8 @@ bool CmControlResponseMessage(struct bcm_mini_adapter *Adapter,  /* <Pointer to
>  		BCM_DEBUG_PRINT(Adapter, DBG_TYPE_OTHERS, CONN_MSG, DBG_LVL_ALL, " VCID = %x", ntohs(pstAddIndication->u16VCID));
>  		CopyBufferToControlPacket(Adapter, (PVOID)Adapter->caDsxReqResp);
>  		kfree(pstAddIndication);
> -	}
>  	break;

Can you properly indent the break; lines as well?

thanks,

greg k-h


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