Re: [PATCH 1/2] fs/efs/inode.c: follow style guide

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 01:46:03 EST


On 1/26/21 9:13 PM, Amy Parker wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 26, 2021 at 7:59 PM Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> On 1/26/21 7:46 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Hi Amy,
>>>
>>> What mail client did you use?
>>> It is breaking (splitting) long lines into shorter lines and that
>>> makes it not possible to apply the patch cleanly.
>
> Was worried about that, thought I had all my settings straightened out.
>
>>>
>>> You can see this problem below or on the web in an email archive.
>>>
>>> Possibly Documentation/process/email-clients.rst can help you.
>
> Yeah, read that. Thought I had everything fixed up.
>
>>
>> Also tabs in the source file have been converted to spaces.
>
> Was this inconsistent throughout the patch? I can't really seem to
> tell. If it's consistent, bet it's probably my mail client - if it's
> inconsistent it could be my editor, I had to switch out temporarily
> for a different editor today.
>

There are no tabs in the patch.

>>
>> It would be good if you could email a patch to yourself and then
>> see if you can apply cleanly it to your source tree (after removing
>> any conflicting patches, of course -- or use a different source
>> tree).
>
> Yeah, I'll make sure to double check with that in the future.
>
>>
>>
>> --
>> ~Randy
>> Reported-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> netiquette: https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette
>
> Should I send in a v2 of this patchset, or just attach the patch here?
> If I should just attach it here, then I'll do the same for patch 2/2.

An attachment might be OK once but it would be better if you
could get inline patches to work. You'll need to do that...


--
~Randy