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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Stratos Karafotis <stratosk@semaphore.gr>
Cc: Dirk Brandewie <dirk.brandewie@gmail.com>,
	dirk.j.brandewie@intel.com,
	Viresh Kumar <viresh.kumar@linaro.org>,
	"linux-pm@vger.kernel.org" <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/7] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Trivial code cleanup
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:43:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1875587.zmLYOIAyby@vostro.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5397673D.8010200@semaphore.gr>

On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 11:14:53 PM Stratos Karafotis wrote:
> On 10/06/2014 11:17 μμ, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:26:44 AM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
> >> On 06/10/2014 08:31 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >>> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 08:12:48 AM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
> >>>> On 06/09/2014 02:01 PM, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
> >>>>> Remove unnecessary blank lines.
> >>>>> Remove unnecessary parentheses.
> >>>>> Remove unnecessary braces.
> >>>>> Put the code in one line where possible.
> >>>>> Add blank lines after variable declarations.
> >>>>> Alignment to open parenthesis.
> >>>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't have an issue with this patch in general but I would rather
> >>>> the cleanup be done when there is a functional change in the given
> >>>> hunk of code otherwise you are setting up a fence for stable/backporters
> >>>> of functional changes in the future.
> >>>
> >>> I actually prefer separate cleanups so as to avoid doing multiple things
> >>> in one patch.
> >>>
> >>> Rafael
> >>>
> >> I don't have strong feelings either way I was just trying to be kind
> >> to the maintainers of distro kernels.
> > 
> > And mixing fixes with cleanups in one patch doesn't do any good to them.
> > 
> > Trust me, I used to work for a distro. :-)
> > 
> 
> So, should I proceed and split the patch or drop it? :)

I'm not sure why you'd want to split it?

That said you're changing things that are intentional.  For example,
the

	if (acpi_disabled
	    || ...)

is.  And the result of (a * 100) / b may generally be different from
a * 100 / b for integers (if the division is carried out first).

Rafael

  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-10 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-09 21:01 [PATCH 6/7] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Trivial code cleanup Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-09 21:22 ` Joe Perches
2014-06-10 14:43   ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-10 15:12 ` Dirk Brandewie
2014-06-10 15:31   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-06-10 17:26     ` Dirk Brandewie
2014-06-10 20:17       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-06-10 20:14         ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-10 20:43           ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2014-06-10 21:02             ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-10 21:38               ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-06-10 21:26                 ` Joe Perches
2014-06-11  0:23                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2014-06-11  1:41                     ` Joe Perches
2014-06-10 21:35                 ` Stratos Karafotis
2014-06-11  0:24                   ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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