From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
To: "Tobias Nießen" <tobias.niessen@stud.uni-hannover.de>
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
Sabrina Gaube <sabrina-gaube@web.de>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@i4.cs.fau.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] staging: rts5208: Rewrite redundant if statement to improve code style
Date: Wed, 17 Jul 2019 11:48:52 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190717084852.GA3089@kadam> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0f3ac8b-541a-d3d0-e25e-26da11e29748@stud.uni-hannover.de>
On Sun, Jun 30, 2019 at 04:12:44PM +0200, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> Am 26.06.2019 um 16:56 schrieb Dan Carpenter:
> > Both these patches seem fine.
> >
> > On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 04:28:56PM +0200, Tobias Nießen wrote:
> >> This commit uses the fact that
> >>
> >> if (a) {
> >> if (b) {
> >> ...
> >> }
> >> }
> >>
> >> can instead be written as
> >>
> >> if (a && b) {
> >> ...
> >> }
> >>
> >> without any change in behavior, allowing to decrease the indentation
> >> of the contained code block and thus reducing the average line length.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Tobias Nießen <tobias.niessen@stud.uni-hannover.de>
> >> Signed-off-by: Sabrina Gaube <sabrina-gaube@web.de>
> >
> > Signed-off-by is like signing a legal document that you didn't put any
> > of SCO's secret UNIXWARE source code into your patch or do other illegal
> > activities. Everyone who handles a patch is supposed to Sign it.
> >
> > It's weird to see Sabrina randomly signing your patches. Probably there
> > is a more appropriate kind of tag to use as well or instead such as
> > Co-Developed-by, Reviewed-by or Suggested-by.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
> >
>
> Thank you, Dan. This patch series is a mandatory part of a course
> Sabrina and I are taking at university. We were told to add
> Signed-off-by for both of us. I can add Co-Developed-by if that helps?
Yes. It does help.
regards,
dan carpenter
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-07-17 8:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-06-26 14:28 staging: rts5208: Two patches to improve code style Tobias Nießen
2019-06-26 14:28 ` [PATCH 1/2] staging: rts5208: Rewrite redundant if statement " Tobias Nießen
2019-06-26 14:56 ` Dan Carpenter
2019-06-30 14:12 ` Tobias Nießen
2019-07-17 8:48 ` Dan Carpenter [this message]
2019-06-26 17:41 ` Joe Perches
2019-06-26 14:28 ` [PATCH 2/2] staging: rts5208: Simplify boolean expression " Tobias Nießen
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