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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Sam Muhammed <jane.pnx9@gmail.com>
Cc: Gokce Kuler <gokcekuler@gmail.com>, outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com
Subject: Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH] staging: hp100: Block comments use a trailing */ on a separate line
Date: Sat, 21 Mar 2020 13:46:15 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200321124615.GA1215294@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e60514a251eb3f690e9136670def0ee2b8289969.camel@gmail.com>

On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 08:44:48AM -0400, Sam Muhammed wrote:
> On Sat, 2020-03-21 at 10:33 +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 04:31:01AM +0300, Gokce Kuler wrote:
> > > Moved to the bottom line */ for block comments
> > 
> > Again, you said what you did, but not why.
> > 
> > Also, you _added_ two new checkpatch warnings, not a good ratio :(
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> 
> Iam sorry, are we allowed to work on this driver, because i got; 
> WARNING: drivers/staging/hp/hp100.c is marked as 'obsolete' in the
> MAINTAINERS hierarchy.  No unnecessary modifications please.

For basic code cleanups, to learn the process, it's fine, but note that
the code will be deleted from the kernel "soon", so any changes you make
will not stick around.

thanks,

greg k-h


  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-21 12:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-21  1:31 [PATCH] staging: hp100: Block comments use a trailing */ on a separate line Gokce Kuler
2020-03-21  9:33 ` Greg KH
2020-03-21 12:44   ` [Outreachy kernel] " Sam Muhammed
2020-03-21 12:46     ` Greg KH [this message]
2020-03-21 12:50       ` Sam Muhammed
2020-03-21 13:51         ` Greg KH

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