[PATCH] kthread:fix coding style issue

[PATCH] kthread:fix coding style issue

[Gaosheng Wu]

From: GaoShengWu <wugsh15@lzu.edu.cn>

Line 28 of kthread.c violates chapter 3 of CodingStyle - put the opening
brace last on the line, and put the closing brace first.

Signed-off-by: GaoShengWu <wugsh15@lzu.edu.cn>
---


checkpatch.pl complained as the following:
ERROR: open brace '{' following struct go on the same line
#28: FILE: kernel/kthread.c:28:
+struct kthread_create_info 
+{

Patch was compile checked with: x86_64_defconfig

Patch is aginst:4.9.0 (localversion-next is next-20161213)

 kernel/kthread.c | 3 +--
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/kthread.c b/kernel/kthread.c
index 2318fba..8888f89 100644
--- a/kernel/kthread.c
+++ b/kernel/kthread.c
@@ -24,8 +24,7 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(kthread_create_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(kthread_create_list);
 struct task_struct *kthreadd_task;
 
-struct kthread_create_info
-{
+struct kthread_create_info {
 	/* Information passed to kthread() from kthreadd. */
 	int (*threadfn)(void *data);
 	void *data;
-- 
2.1.4

Re: [PATCH] kthread:fix coding style issue

[Greg KH]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2016 at 04:22:53PM +0800, Gaosheng Wu wrote:
> From: GaoShengWu <wugsh15@lzu.edu.cn>
> 
> Line 28 of kthread.c violates chapter 3 of CodingStyle - put the opening
> brace last on the line, and put the closing brace first.
> 
> Signed-off-by: GaoShengWu <wugsh15@lzu.edu.cn>

Please do coding style fixes on drivers/staging/* first, so that you can
learn the proper process for doing this and not annoy the core kernel
developers with incorrect patches.

good luck!

greg k-h