Re: [PATCH 3/3] drivers/staging/rtl8192u: Fix of checkpatch-errors

From: Greg KH
Date: Mon Jun 03 2019 - 09:09:03 EST


On Mon, Jun 03, 2019 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Christian Müller wrote:
> Fix issues that lead to multiple checkpatch warnings and errors, most of
> them regarding formatting of code and comments.
> Comments that contain only commented out code are removed as well.
>
> Signed-off-by: Felix Trommer <felix.trommer@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Müller <muellerch-privat@xxxxxx>


- Your patch did many different things all at once, making it difficult
to review. All Linux kernel patches need to only do one thing at a
time. If you need to do multiple things (such as clean up all coding
style issues in a file/driver), do it in a sequence of patches, each
one doing only one thing. This will make it easier to review the
patches to ensure that they are correct, and to help alleviate any
merge issues that larger patches can cause.

- You did not specify a description of why the patch is needed, or
possibly, any description at all, in the email body. Please read the
section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the kernel file,
Documentation/SubmittingPatches for what is needed in order to
properly describe the change.

- You did not write a descriptive Subject: for the patch, allowing Greg,
and everyone else, to know what this patch is all about. Please read
the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the kernel file,
Documentation/SubmittingPatches for what a proper Subject: line should
look like.

If you wish to discuss this problem further, or you have questions about
how to resolve this issue, please feel free to respond to this email and
Greg will reply once he has dug out from the pending patches received
from other developers.

thanks,

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