Re: [PATCH] platform/renesas: fix repeated words in comments

From: Jacopo Mondi
Date: Mon Aug 22 2022 - 04:40:02 EST


Hi Geert

On Mon, Aug 22, 2022 at 10:06:03AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Wangjianli,
>
> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 4:58 PM wangjianli <wangjianli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Delete the redundant word 'on'.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: wangjianli <wangjianli@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> > --- a/drivers/media/platform/renesas/renesas-ceu.c
> > +++ b/drivers/media/platform/renesas/renesas-ceu.c
> > @@ -1101,7 +1101,7 @@ static int ceu_open(struct file *file)
> > return ret;
> >
> > mutex_lock(&ceudev->mlock);
> > - /* Causes soft-reset and sensor power on on first open */
> > + /* Causes soft-reset and sensor power on first open */
>
> The double "on" is actually correct. Please ask yourself the question:
> "When should the sensor be powered on?".
> Answer: "On first open".
>

So I overlooked this patch so badly, that I didn't get what I meant when I
first wrote this comment ?

> Personally, I would have written "power-on" instead of "power on"
> (cfr. "soft-reset"), so perhaps it's a good idea to make that change,
> to prevent the next person looking for double words falling for
> this again?
>

Wangjianli please ignore my acked-by and follow instead Geert's
suggestion to change this to power-on, if you want to re-submit the
patch.

Thanks Geert for being awake, as I'm clearly not yet.

> > ret = pm_runtime_resume_and_get(ceudev->dev);
> > mutex_unlock(&ceudev->mlock);
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
> Geert
>
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>
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