[stgt] [PATCH 0/4] style improvement patches for few source files

[FUJITA Tomonori]

On Wed,  8 Aug 2012 10:03:20 +0300
nezhinsky at gmail.com wrote:

> From: Alexander Nezhinsky <alexandern at mellanox.com>
> 
> This is a series of patches for a few "main" sources files.
> It fixes the style errors and warnings detected by curent version of checkpatch.pl.
> 
> Please look over the fixes to validate the way in which they have been made.
> 
> I strived to fix all errors and warnings with 2 exceptions.
> First, i can find no sensible way to avoid splitting strings used as format 
> parameters to eprintf and friends. When the format is long and eprintf statment 
> is indented it either violates the 80 char line limitation or the format string
> must be split. 
> Another ignored warning is about returning errno codes from the program.
> The checker stipulates returning negative values which is the kernel convention.
> We seem to need to return positive values, don't we?
> 
> Thus i used the following command:
> scripts/checkpatch.pl --ignore SPLIT_STRING,USE_NEGATIVE_ERRNO --show-types -f <src_file>
> 
> Alexander Nezhinsky (4):
>   style fixes in tgtd.c
>   style fixes for target.c
>   changed a misspelled ASC define to ASC_CMDS_CLEARED_BY_ANOTHER_INI
>   style fixes for tgtadm.c
> 
>  usr/scsi.h   |    2 +-
>  usr/target.c |  199 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------------
>  usr/tgtadm.c |  214 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  usr/tgtd.c   |   53 ++++++++-------
>  4 files changed, 267 insertions(+), 201 deletions(-)

Sorry, as I said before, I don't like to apply 'pure style fix'
patches.

Any reason of returning a negative value is bad for us?
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