Re: [PATCH v10] staging: fbtft: add tearing signal detect

From: Greg KH
Date: Wed Jan 27 2021 - 10:36:53 EST


On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 05:49:46PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 03:25:20PM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:17:08PM +0800, carlis wrote:
> > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 15:13:05 +0100
> > > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 10:08:09PM +0800, carlis wrote:
> > > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 2021 14:51:55 +0100
> > > > > Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On Wed, Jan 27, 2021 at 09:42:52PM +0800, Carlis wrote:
> > > > > > > From: zhangxuezhi <zhangxuezhi1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > For st7789v ic,when we need continuous full screen refresh, it
> > > > > > > is best to wait for the TE signal arrive to avoid screen tearing
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > Signed-off-by: zhangxuezhi <zhangxuezhi1@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Please slow down and wait at least a day between patch
> > > > > > submissions, there is no rush here.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > And also, ALWAYS run scripts/checkpatch.pl on your submissions, so
> > > > > > that you don't have a maintainer asking you about basic problems,
> > > > > > like are in this current patch :(
> > > > > >
> > > > > > thanks,
> > > > > >
> > > > > > greg k-h
> > > > >
> > > > > hi,
> > > > > This is my first patch contribution to Linux, so some of the rules
> > > > > are not very clear .In addition, I can confirm that before sending
> > > > > patch, I check it with checkPatch.py every time.Thank you very much
> > > > > for your help
> > > >
> > > > Please read Documentation/SubmittingPatches which has a link to the
> > > > checklist and other documentation you should read.
> > > >
> > > > And I doubt you are running checkpatch on your submission, as there is
> > > > obvious coding style issues in it. If so, please provide the output
> > > > as it must be broken :(
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > > hi, the patch v11 checkpatch.pl output is below:
> > >
> > > carlis@bf-rmsz-10:~/work/linux-kernel/linux$ ./scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > > 0001-staging-fbtft-add-tearing-signal-detect.patch total: 0 errors, 0
> > > warnings, 0 checks, 176 lines checked
> > >
> > > 0001-staging-fbtft-add-tearing-signal-detect.patch has no obvious style
> > > problems and is ready for submission.
> >
> > Wow, my apologies!
> >
> > Andy and Joe, there's something wrong here that is missing the fact that
> > a line is being indented with spaces and not tabs in the patch
> > at https://lore.kernel.org/r/1611754972-151016-1-git-send-email-zhangxuezhi3@xxxxxxxxx
> >
> > Any ideas what broke?
> >
>
> /*Tearing Effect Line On*/
>
> Comments are the exception to the "no spaces at the start of a line"
> rule. I was expecting that the kbuild-bot would send a Smatch warning
> for inconsistent indenting, but comments are not counted there either.
>
> I'm sort of surprised that we don't have checkpatch rule about the
> missing space characters. It should be: "/* Tearing Effect Line On */".

That was going to be my next question, lots of comments added in this
patch don't have spaces...

thanks,

greg k-h