lkml.org 
[lkml]   [2014]   [Apr]   [3]   [last100]   RSS Feed
Views: [wrap][no wrap]   [headers]  [forward] 
 
Messages in this thread
/
Date
From
SubjectRe: [RFC] quiet checkpatch style recommendation about no spaces around bitfield :
On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 01:56:28PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Mar 2014 08:31:38 -0700 Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> wrote:
>
> > > > @@ -143,13 +143,13 @@ union cvmx_usbcx_gahbcfg {
> > > > * * 1'b1: Unmask the interrupt assertion to the application.
> > > > */
> > > > struct cvmx_usbcx_gahbcfg_s {
> > > > - uint32_t reserved_9_31 : 23;
> > > > - uint32_t ptxfemplvl : 1;
> > > > - uint32_t nptxfemplvl : 1;
> > > > - uint32_t reserved_6_6 : 1;
> > > > - uint32_t dmaen : 1;
> > > > - uint32_t hbstlen : 4;
> > > > - uint32_t glblintrmsk : 1;
> > > > + uint32_t reserved_9_31:23;
> > > > + uint32_t ptxfemplvl:1;
> > > > + uint32_t nptxfemplvl:1;
> > > > + uint32_t reserved_6_6:1;
> > > > + uint32_t dmaen:1;
> > > > + uint32_t hbstlen:4;
> > > > + uint32_t glblintrmsk:1;
> > > > } s;
> > > The warning here is:
> > > ERROR: spaces prohibited around that ':' (ctx:WxW)
> > > I have done a kernel wide search for these warnings
> >
> > Really? How?
> >
> > > and I think we
> > > should disable this warning. It has too many false positives like this.
> >
> > It does seem a bit noisy to me too.
> >
> > Andy? Andrew?
>
> I suspect we don't use bitfields enough for a particular style to have
> emerged. Personally I think the above patch made the code harder to
> read, so...

Yeah it seems the predominant style would trigger the warning. So turn
it off.

-apw


\
 
 \ /
  Last update: 2014-04-03 21:01    [W:2.070 / U:1.984 seconds]
©2003-2020 Jasper Spaans|hosted at Digital Ocean and TransIP|Read the blog|Advertise on this site