Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Fix warnings due to introduction of new typedefs

[Jonathan Bergh <bergh.jonathan@gmail.com>]

On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 11:05:38AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:59:21AM +0200, Jonathan Bergh wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:32:29AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > 
> > Hi
> > 
> > >  This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
> > >  did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.
> > 
> > This patch is a *new* patch which replaced a previous *series* of patches
> > so it was considered a *new* standalone patch, rather than a new version 
> > of the original series. 
> 
> Not really, it's a version 2 as you are doing the same thing.

Ok, thanks
 
> > > - Your patch did many different things all at once, making it difficult
> > >   to review.  All Linux kernel patches need to only do one thing at a
> > >   time.  If you need to do multiple things (such as clean up all coding
> > >   style issues in a file/driver), do it in a sequence of patches, each
> > >   one doing only one thing.
> > 
> > This patch only addresses removal of typedefs from the declarations 
> > and fixes up the implmentations that relied on those typedefs. The previous
> > advice was to not make breaking changes across patches, so this patch 
> > represents code changes which are as atomic as possible in a single patch
> > without breaking the build. It does not mix formatting / other changes
> > with the code change. 
> 
> Please fix up one typedef at a time.

Ok
 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h