Re: [PATCH v2 0/6] usb: gadget: dummy_hcd: coding style improvements

[David Hunter <david.hunter.linux@gmail.com>]

On 12/2/25 10:53, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 06:27:46AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 02, 2025 at 02:07:09AM +0530, Clint George wrote:
>>> As part of my LKMP mentorship i have to complete 5 patches as a criteria
>>> for graduation and thus have focused on working on such
>>> beginner-friendly patches so that not only do i get the required number
>>> of patches but also get familiar with the process of kernel
>>> developement.
>>
>> The LKMP internship should be done in drivers/staging/ as generally
>> coding style cleanups are NOT accepted in other parts of the kernel,
>> unless you get approval from the maintainer ahead of time.
>>
>> Does the maintainer of this driver want this to be used for the intern
>> project?
> 
> In fact, Clint's changes are small and inoffensive enough, I wouldn't 
> mind having them applied to dummy-hcd.
> 
> However, Greg is perfectly right that this kind of stylistic update is 
> not something that should be submitted for most parts of the kernel.  It 
> just bulks up the Git history with essentially meaningless cruft, making 
> it all that much harder to see the changes that really matter.  That's 
> part of the reason for the suggestion that interns and beginners should 
> confine their efforts to drivers/staging.
> 
> Also, remember that trivial changes like this are fine for learning the 
> procedure of submitting kernel patches, but the effects they have on the 
> kernel itself are minimal.  A patch that actually fixes a bug or adds a 
> functional enhancement would be a different story.
> 
> Alan Stern


Understood.

David Hunter