On Wed, Oct 17, 2007 at 09:09:24AM -0400, Mark Lord wrote:
> > I'd argue these comments fall under "stating the bleedin' obvious", but
> > that's Kristen's call.
>
> Hey, they're original to the file. I'm just keeping checkpatch.pl happy here.
> Ditto for everything else you commented on.
I can see that they were there before. I just think the appropriate
patch is to delete them rather than to move them
> >> case INT_PRESENCE_OFF:
> >> if (!HP_SUPR_RM(ctrl->ctrlcap))
> >> break;
> >> - dbg("Surprise Removal\n");
> >> + dbg("Surprise Event\n");
> >> update_slot_info(p_slot);
> >> handle_surprise_event(p_slot);
> >> break;
> >
> > That doesn't seem like an obviously correct change to me. Can you
> > explain?
>
> Yeah. You clipped the top line: case INT_PRESENCE_ON:
> So that code can be run for both hot plug and hot remove operations.
I didn't clip it -- diff did when it inserted three lines of context.
> ..
> >> - temp_word = (temp_word & ~intr_enable) | intr_enable;
> >> + temp_word = (temp_word & ~intr_enable) | intr_enable;
> >
> > *boggle*
>
> Dig out your text editor, and notice the excess whitespace at the end of the line,
> along with similar stuff on most other lines in this patch.
You, however, did clip the important line.
> > temp_word |= intr_enable;
which is what I was saying the above is equivalent to.
> This is all just stuff that checkpatch.pl complains about when
> the later patches are applied, so patch 01_... serves to reduce
> the noise level from checkpatch.pl for the *real* patches which follow.
I know, but if you're going to remove whitespace from a line, you might
as well change the line to look like idiomatic C rather than something
an Ada programmer wrote.
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