[PATCH v2] ata: Drop commas after OF match table sentinels

[Damien Le Moal]

On 2022/03/03 14:20, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Kieran,
> 
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 12:40 PM Kieran Bingham
> <kieran.bingham at ideasonboard.com> wrote:
>> Quoting Geert Uytterhoeven (2022-03-03 08:36:35)
>>> It does not make sense to have a comma after a sentinel, as any new
>>> elements must be added before the sentinel.
>>
>> Indeed.
>>
>>> Add comments to clarify the purpose of the empty elements.
>>> Rewrap entries to a single line to have a consistent style.
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Kieran Bingham <kieran.bingham+renesas at ideasonboard.com>
> 
> Thanks!
> 
>>
> git grep "{ }," | wc -l
>> 2638
>> git grep "{}," | wc -l
>> 2088
>>
>> Lots of false positives in that basic search, but this looks like a big
>> job. Is this something that could be added to checkstyle?
>>
>> Probably hard to match when it's a sentinal, rather than an initialiser
>> ... so perhaps a coccinelle task.
> 
> Yes, there are _lots_ of these.
> 
> I fixed the ca. 50 cases involving Renesas-specific compatible values,
> and picked up the ata subsystem for a first run.  But fixing all of them
> looks like a lot of work, so automation might help.

Thanks for the cleanup Geert. Will apply.

> 
> For soc_device_attribute tables, there are less cases, so I'll just
> send the handful patches to fix all of them...
> 
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
> 
>                         Geert
> 
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> 
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Damien Le Moal
Western Digital Research