On Tue, Feb 20, 2018 at 09:14:16AM +0000, Peter Maydell wrote: > On 20 February 2018 at 08:02, Su Hang <suhan...@mails.ucas.ac.cn> wrote: > > Formating the code with `clang-format -i util/uri.c`. > > My .clang-format file content is: > > ''' > > IndentWidth: 4 > > BreakBeforeBraces: Linux > > ''' > > > > Then use `perl -pi -e "s/return \((.*?)\);/return \1;/g" util/uri.c` > > to remove pattern like this: "return (1);" > > > > checkpatch.pl still rise these two kinds of "ERROR", I'm not sure > > whether I should also suppress these, so I left it. > > > > ''' > > ERROR: braces {} are necessary even for single statement blocks > > #1803: FILE: uri.c:1803: > > + while ((bas->path[cur] != 0) && (bas->path[cur] != '/')) > > + cur++; > > > > ERROR: braces {} are necessary for all arms of this statement > > #1805: FILE: uri.c:1805: > > + if (bas->path[cur] == 0) > > [...] > > ''' > > In some places you have put in extra braces, like here: > > > - if (str == NULL) > > - return(-1); > > + if (str == NULL) { > > + return -1; > > + } > > I think if we're going to reformat the file we might as well > get it checkpatch-clean. Alternatively if you don't want to > fix up the brace style then we needn't touch them at all.
I agree - lets get it 100% clean for checkpatch. > One useful split for format-cleanup patches that you might > consider is to have a patch which contains only whitespace > cleanups, so that 'git show --ignore-all-space' shows no changes. > That makes that patch easy to review. Then changes that do > make non-whitespace changes can go in their own patch, which > is generally smaller and so easier to review by eye. Yes, 2 patches would be nicer. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :|