Re: [PATCH] fix warnings that occur on make *docs

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Mar 01 2007 - 16:48:35 EST


Thomas Davies wrote:
On 3/1/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:39:41 -0800 Thomas Davies wrote:

> From: Thomas Davies <daviesth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Cleaned up comments and whitespace in /drivers/message/fusion/*.c and also
> /lib/bitmap.c to remove make *docs warnings. An attempt by a newbie
> to contribute
> in some small way to the codebase. Did I do it right?

Hi,

Your patch looks fine (until I tested it), but I have already
corrected these warnings. The patches have been in the -mm patchset
for awhile and Andrew has sent some of it to Linus to be merged.
Other parts need to go thru other maintainers.

Thank you for the feedback Randy. Looks like I missed a step in the cycle;
I cloned Linus' tree with git from
git://git.kernel.org/pub/[...]/torvalds/linux-2.6.git,
was this wrong? Is there another tree I should be cloning, or do I
apply the -mm
patch from kernel.org before making this sort of change? (The latter I suspect.)

I don't think that my patches have been merged by Linus yet (sent by
Andrew, but there must be some delay there :) .

To see if anything has already been patched, it often takes reviewing
both Linus's tree and Andrew's -mm patches. Hopefully we don't also
need to review all gits of all maintainers, since Andrew tries to
merge all of those into the -mm patchset.

> Signed-off-by: Thomas Davies <daviesth@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> diff -uprN -X linux-2.6/Documentation/dontdiff
> linux-2.6/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
> linux-2.6-new/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c

Looks like your mail client split these lines (above and below)
so that 'patch' cannot apply the patch.
lkml.org shows the same splitting, so I guess it's not my
mail client on the reading end that is doing this.

I thought I could get away with using gmail in plain text mode, guess
I'll go back to using mutt.

gmail works if you use the SMTP interface to it (or probably with
attachments, but they aren't good for reviews/reviewers).
Yes, mutt works.

--
~Randy
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