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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: "Guozihua (Scott)" <guozihua@huawei.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net,
	phil@philpotter.co.uk, paskripkin@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Fix return type for implementation of ndo_start_xmit
Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2022 07:16:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YxWGM+f1d4+sCKMj@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2a5e1f33-45ee-2da7-19fb-f0ef66418e9e@huawei.com>

On Mon, Sep 05, 2022 at 09:23:15AM +0800, Guozihua (Scott) wrote:
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Sorry for the confusion.
> 
> On 2022/9/2 16:25, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 02, 2022 at 04:16:53PM +0800, GUO Zihua wrote:
> > > Since Linux now supports CFI, it will be a good idea to fix mismatched
> > > return type for implementation of hooks. Otherwise this might get
> > > cought out by CFI and cause a panic.
> > > 
> > > Use enums from netdev_tx_t as return value instead, then change return
> > > type to netdev_tx_t.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: GUO Zihua <guozihua@huawei.com>
> > > ---
> > >   drivers/staging/r8188eu/include/xmit_osdep.h | 2 +-
> > >   drivers/staging/r8188eu/os_dep/xmit_linux.c  | 4 ++--
> > >   2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Why is this and the other commits, marked as RESEND?
> 
> The first version of the patch has a truncated subject, thus the resend. It
> might be better to send a v2 patches instead..

Yes please do that.

> > And any reason you didn't cc: the staging maintainer on this commit?
> 
> It's my first time sending patches to the staging maillist. When I run
> get_maintainer.pl on the patch I don't see a "maintainer", but only
> "supporters" and "reviewers". Is that for staging there are a group of
> maintainers for all modules?

See the MAINTAINERS file for what "supported" and "maintained" and the
rest mean and just include them all when you submit a patch.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2022-09-05  5:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-09-02  8:16 [RESEND PATCH] staging: r8188eu: Fix return type for implementation of ndo_start_xmit GUO Zihua
2022-09-02  8:25 ` Greg KH
2022-09-05  1:23   ` Guozihua (Scott)
2022-09-05  5:16     ` Greg KH [this message]
2022-09-05 13:08       ` Guozihua (Scott)
2022-09-02  9:10 ` Dan Carpenter

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