[PATCH] staging: Fix spacing between function name and parentheses

[Hugo Mills]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 09:44:05AM -0400, nick wrote:
> Thank you for your help, I'll study the code and see what I can do
> about it. Do you have any suggestions of how to fix this checkpatch
> warning?

   Ignore it. The checker has clearly triggered on a false positive --
this is not a function call, and should not be held to that standard.
(Take a look at where the macro is actually used, to see what's going
on here). Move on to find something more interesting to fix.

   Hugo.

> Nick
> 
> On 14-10-11 05:53 AM, Kristofer Hallin wrote:
> > Even if you use checkpath you _should_ understand what you are changing.
> > The output of checkpatch merely there to help.
> > 
> > In this case you can see that this is a macro just a few lines up in the
> > code.
> > On 11 Oct 2014 11:46, "Sudip Mukherjee" <sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 
> >> I agree. But in my opinion checkpatch is here to help us fix style
> >> problems , but we should not blindly act on checkpatch warnings.
> >>
> >> thanks
> >> sudip
> >>
> >> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 1:57 PM, Peter Senna Tschudin
> >> <peter.senna at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>> I think that, in this case, checkpatch.pl contributed:
> >>>
> >>> $ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl -f drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c
> >>> WARNING: space prohibited between function name and open parenthesis '('
> >>> #415: FILE: drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c:415:
> >>> +                       if (c.s.field op (value)) {
> >>    \
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 8:11 AM, Dave Tian <dave.jing.tian at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>> Agreed - that is why I mentioned the patch is neither right nor useful:)
> >>>>
> >>>> -daveti
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> On Oct 11, 2014, at 2:08 PM, Sudip Mukherjee <
> >> sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi Dave,
> >>>>> It will work. But my point of saying that was  c.s.field ==(value) is
> >>>>> again not according to the style.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> thanks
> >>>>> sudip
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Dave Tian <dave.jing.tian at gmail.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>>>>> It also works as value is surrounded by (), though I do not think the
> >> patch itself is right or useful.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Dave Tian
> >>>>>> dave.jing.tian at gmail.com
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> On Oct 11, 2014, at 12:58 PM, Sudip Mukherjee <
> >> sudipm.mukherjee at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2014 at 09:55:48PM -0400, Nicholas Krause wrote:
> >>>>>>>> Fixes checkpatch coding style warning about unneeded space
> >>>>>>>> between function name an parentheses.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Krause <xerofoify at gmail.com>
> >>>>>>>> ---
> >>>>>>>> Untested
> >>>>>>>> drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c | 2 +-
> >>>>>>>> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c
> >> b/drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c
> >>>>>>>> index 5f9db4c..bbeb0cc 100644
> >>>>>>>> --- a/drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c
> >>>>>>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/octeon-usb/octeon-hcd.c
> >>>>>>>> @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ struct octeon_hcd {
> >>>>>>>>             type c;
> >>      \
> >>>>>>>>             while (1) {
> >>      \
> >>>>>>>>                     c.u32 = __cvmx_usb_read_csr32(usb, address);
> >>     \
> >>>>>>>> -                    if (c.s.field op (value)) {
> >>      \
> >>>>>>>> +                    if (c.s.field op(value)) {
> >>       \
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> have you read the code before modifying it?
> >>>>>>> this is not a function.
> >>>>>>> have you seen how CVMX_WAIT_FOR_FIELD32 is being called?
> >>>>>>> on every call of CVMX_WAIT_FOR_FIELD32 op is the operator "=="
> >>>>>>> so when called the macro will be c.s.field == (value).
> >>>>>>> if your patch is applied then it will become c.s.field ==(value) ..
> >> will that be correct ?
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> thanks
> >>>>>>> sudip
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>                             result = 0;
> >>      \
> >>>>>>>>                             break;
> >>     \
> >>>>>>>>                     } else if (cvmx_get_cycle() > done) {
> >>      \

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