From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Shobhit Kumar Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/9] BYT DSI Dual Link Support Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 18:17:27 +0530 Message-ID: <54240EDF.3090105@linux.intel.com> References: <1411548418-26525-1-git-send-email-gaurav.k.singh@intel.com> <20140924090125.GQ15734@phenom.ffwll.local> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from mga02.intel.com (mga02.intel.com [134.134.136.20]) by gabe.freedesktop.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D5CBB6E2B2 for ; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 05:47:32 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20140924090125.GQ15734@phenom.ffwll.local> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: intel-gfx-bounces@lists.freedesktop.org Sender: "Intel-gfx" To: Daniel Vetter , Gaurav K Singh Cc: Shobhit Kumar , intel-gfx List-Id: intel-gfx@lists.freedesktop.org On Wednesday 24 September 2014 02:31 PM, Daniel Vetter wrote: > On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 02:16:49PM +0530, Gaurav K Singh wrote: >> Hi, >> These set of patches build on top of the existing DSI Video mode support to >> enable dual link MIPI panels with high resolutions. These patches have been >> tested on a 25x16 panel and works well. > > Except for the first patch (which only has a trivial "this is prep work" > sentence) all your patches lack a commit message. If you do mechanical and > trivial changes all over the driver split up into a bunch of patches this > is ok, but for everything else it makes reviewing your code really hard > since the reviewer has no idea _why_ some change is done. > > So please give your patches some good commit messages, focusing > specifically on why you change things like you do (and also e.g. why other > approaches would be worse). Also, the subject/summary should be at most 50 > chars (with a hard limit at 80 characters), lots of them are longer. So > probably some of the details of what exactly a patch changes should also > be moved into the commit message. > > See "2) Describe your changes" in Documentation/SubmittingPatches for a > some good examples and explanations. Also my review BKM training has some > material about what a good commit message should entail. > Yeah I agree, more information is needed and we will submit patches again after addressing comments from Jani as well. Regards Shobhit