The module_put() function tests whether its argument is NULL and then
returns immediately. Thus the test around the call is not needed.
This issue was detected by using the Coccinelle software.
Signed-off-by: Markus Elfring <elfring@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The second argument name of DIM_GetChannelState declaration changes from
dim_ch_state_ptr to state_ptr. The DIM_GetChannelState declaration and
definition has same argument name as state_ptr.
Signed-off-by: Chaehyun Lim <chaehyun.lim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch adds space around '<<' found by checkpatch.
CHECK: spaces preferred around that '<<' (ctx:VxV)
FILE: drivers/staging/most/hdm-dim2/dim2_reg.h:69:
Signed-off-by: Chaehyun Lim <chaehyun.lim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch removes blank line after an open brace found by checkpatch.
CHECK: Blank lines aren't necessary after an open brace '{'
Signed-off-by: Chaehyun Lim <chaehyun.lim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch removes the unnecessary wait_queue that has exclusively been
used for the poll function and its poll_table. Instead, an already
existing one is used.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch replaces the usage of min() by min_t().
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Use the timer API function setup_timer instead of init_timer, removing
the structure field assignments.
<smpl>
@timer@
expression e1,e2,e3,fn_ptr;
@@
-init_timer(&e1);
+setup_timer(&e1, fn_ptr, e2);
... when != fn_ptr = e3
-e1.function = fn_ptr;
-e1.data = e2;
</smpl>
Signed-off-by: Muhammad Falak R Wani <falakreyaz@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch uses the preferred call to kzalloc. It replaces
kzalloc(sizeof(struct aim_fh)...) by kzalloc(sizeof(*fh)...).
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch makes use of the preferred kernel types such as u16, u32.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch puts logical continuations on the previous line to meet
coding style.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes style issues regarding braces on all arms of a statement.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes coding style violations by making alignments match
open parenthesis.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch removes multiple assignments as specified in coding style.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch puts spaces around the asterisk operator. It is needed to
prevent checkpatch from reporting an issue.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch removes the usage of multiple blank lines from driver modules.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch prevents code from crossing the 80 character margin.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch changes the description of a function parameter for a better
understanding.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch replaces memcpy() by the preferred function ether_addr_copy().
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch removes and fixes constants being misplaced in comparisons.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes a couple of issues of the hdm-usb module found by
checkpatch.pl.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes the issues of HDM module i2c found by checkpatch.pl
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch removes constants from comparisons and fixes checkpatch warnings
about constants being put in the wrong place inside a comparison.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
This patch fixes line-over-80-characters violation and removes the
splitting of quoted strings.
Signed-off-by: Christian Gromm <christian.gromm@microchip.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
The variable mbo is already NULL tested so, check on it should be
removed.
Semantic patch used:
@@ expression E;
statement S; @@
if(E==NULL) {... return ...;}
- if(E)
S
Signed-off-by: Shivani Bhardwaj <shivanib134@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Fix 80+ character line in cdev.c to stop checkpatch from whining.
Signed-off-by: Gavin Thomas Claugus <gclaugus@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
void pointers do not need to be cast to other pointer types.
The semantic patch used to find this:
@r@
expression x;
void* e;
type T;
identifier f;
@@
(
*((T *)e)
|
((T *)x)[...]
|
((T *)x)->f
|
- (T *)
e
)
Signed-off-by: Shraddha Barke <shraddha.6596@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Markus Elfring