[PATCH] mtd: clean up whitespace in linux/mtd/map.h
Joe Perches
joe at perches.com
Tue Mar 10 13:28:58 PDT 2015
On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 12:58 -0700, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:33:36AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Tue, 2015-03-10 at 17:51 +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > > As the only comments I got for the "mtd: cfi: reduce stack size"
> > > patch were about whitespace changes, it appears necessary to fix
> > > up the rest of the file as well, which contains the exact same
> > > mistakes.
> >
> > trivia:
> >
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/mtd/map.h b/include/linux/mtd/map.h
> > []
> > > @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@
> > > /* ensure we never evaluate anything shorted than an unsigned long
> > > * to zero, and ensure we'll never miss the end of an comparison (bjd) */
> > >
> > > -#define map_calc_words(map) ((map_bankwidth(map) + (sizeof(unsigned long)-1))/ sizeof(unsigned long))
> > > +#define map_calc_words(map) ((map_bankwidth(map) + (sizeof(unsigned long)-1)) / sizeof(unsigned long))
> >
> > DIV_ROUND_UP?
> >
> > > #ifdef CONFIG_MTD_MAP_BANK_WIDTH_8
> > > # ifdef map_bankwidth
> > > @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ static inline int map_bankwidth_supported(int w)
> > > }
> > > }
> > >
> > > -#define MAX_MAP_LONGS ( ((MAX_MAP_BANKWIDTH*8) + BITS_PER_LONG - 1) / BITS_PER_LONG )
> > > +#define MAX_MAP_LONGS (((MAX_MAP_BANKWIDTH * 8) + BITS_PER_LONG - 1) / BITS_PER_LONG)
> >
> > BITS_TO_LONGS?
>
> It seems the $subject patch is really not that necessary,
Coding style patches rarely are.
> as it was just
> inspired by similarly trivial comments. But I thought CodingStyle
> was supposed to mostly be a guide for new code, not a charter to "fix
> up" old code like drivers/mtd/{chips,maps}.
'tisn't but consistency has its own virtue.
> So I would have been happy with ignoring the whitespace comments on the
> v1 stack usage patch (esp. since it *did* match the existing style), and
> avoiding the ensuing comments about helper macros. IMO, it's pretty
> silly when a simple patch to fix a real issue turns into an extended
> search for other trivial issues.
>
> I'll probably take both of Arnd's patches as they stand,
No worries. The comments weren't meant to derail
the original patches.
> but any more
> trivial requests to stable code like this should come in the form of
> real patches, not respins of Arnd's patch.
I'm not respinning the patches.
If Arnd wants to do more work, that's up to him.
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