Re: [PATCH] staging/sm75fb: Declare static functions as such

From: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado
Date: Mon Mar 16 2015 - 16:55:18 EST


Hello Lorenzo

On Mon, Mar 16, 2015 at 8:03 PM, Lorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> I currently have a patch series awaiting the final ok which includes
> fixes for these warnings
> (http://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1503.1/02535.html),
> apologies but assuming there isn't something hideously wrong with my
> series I suspect they supersedes this patch :(

Sorry about that, I did pull from linux-next and I am crealy not
subscribed to the right mailing list.


>
> It's really easy to accidentally submit a patch that has already been
> covered elsewhere; I, as a rather new kernel contributor, always find
> I have to search quite a bit to be *sure* that it's not been covered
> already.

I miss something like the properly maintained patchwork on
linux-media. It works really well to see what is on the pipeline. I
honestly never thought that somebody will take a look to this driver
:)

>
> Additionally, your subject line is 'staging/sm75fb: Declare static
> functions as such' which ought to be 'staging: sm750fb: Declare static
> functions as such' - there's a typo in the device name and I think the
> convention is always to use colons in subject lines.

About the typo, you are right of course :)

Regarding the colon, there is no convention about that, every
subsystem has its own preference. I prefer / than :

I agree that is your patch that should be pulled, not this one. But I
think you should split your patch in one patch per file.

All that said

Nacked-by: Ricardo Ribalda Delgado <ricardo.ribalda@xxxxxxxxx>

>
> Best,

Thanks!

>
> --
> Lorenzo Stoakes
> https:/ljs.io



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