[PATCH 1/1] STAGING - REALTEK RTL8188EU DRIVERS: Fix Coding Style Error

Larry Finger Larry.Finger at lwfinger.net
Sat Jul 25 17:47:48 UTC 2020


On 7/25/20 7:20 AM, Anant Thazhemadam wrote:
> Running the checkpatch.pl script on the file for which patch was created, the
> following error was found to exist.
> ERROR: space required after that ',' (ctx:VxV)
> 
> Fixed the above error which was found on line #721 by inserting a blank
> space at the appropriate position.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Anant Thazhemadam <anant.thazhemadam at gmail.com>
> ---
>   drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c
> index 21f6652dd69f..57e171d3e48d 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_security.c
> @@ -718,7 +718,7 @@ u32 rtw_tkip_decrypt(struct adapter *padapter, u8 *precvframe)
>   				res = _FAIL;
>   			}
>   		} else {
> -			RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_security_c_, _drv_err_, ("%s: stainfo==NULL!!!\n",__func__));
> +			RT_TRACE(_module_rtl871x_security_c_, _drv_err_, ("%s: stainfo==NULL!!!\n", __func__));
>   			res = _FAIL;
>   		}
>   	}

In fixing one checkpatch.pl condition, you introduced another - the resulting 
line is too long. You should fix only one such condition, but you should fix any 
others that are introduced. You do need to document it.

Patch subjects for this driver should be written as "staging: rtl8188eu: .....".

Larry




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