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SubjectRe: [PATCH] mtd: nand: Added spaces around ('=' and '<')
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Arushi,

Am Mittwoch, 7. März 2018, 16:38:50 CET schrieb Arushi Singhal:
> On Mon, Mar 5, 2018 at 9:12 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
> > Arushi Singhal,
> >
> > Am Samstag, 3. März 2018, 15:02:33 CET schrieb Arushi Singhal:
> > > Add spaces around ('=' and '<'), to conform to the Linux
> > > kernel coding style. Issue found using checkpatch.
> >
> > please fix real issues. Coding style fixes to existing code just add too
> > much
> > churn. Except for drivers/staging/.
>
> Hello Richard
> Thanks for explaining,
>
> > If you're looking for a small MTD related project, I can offer the
> > following.
> > Cleanup all ubi_assert()s in drivers/mtd/ubi/.
> > Some of them need to be transformed into a meaningful warning/error
> > message,
> > others into a hard error, such as WARN_ON().
> > Review/understand every ubi_assert() and convert it.
>
> Before doing this task, I read about this discussion (
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-mtd/2014-November/056352.html ).
> In this discussion it is decided to split ubi_assert() into two different
> functions, BUG_ON() and WARN_ON(). Even some of the asserts can be removed
> too.

Very good! You managed to exhume my forgotten TODOs. ;-)

One comment on BUG_ON(), we have to make very sure that it is not user
trigger-able.

Thanks,
//richard

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