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From: Philipp Hortmann <philipp.g.hortmann@gmail.com>
To: Gary Rookard <garyrookard@fastmail.org>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: renamed variable IsHTHalfNmodeAPs
Date: Sun, 22 Oct 2023 09:47:36 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <070529f5-b0ff-4cbb-af3e-28984616a821@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <aa578599-cd87-4c3a-8040-03ab065d8482@app.fastmail.com>

On 10/22/23 09:32, Gary Rookard wrote:
> Sorry, but I do both compile and checkpatch, but they seem to be 
> failing, don't
> know why yet. I've been using make M=drivers/staging/rtl8192e after a 
> complete
> kernel build at make -j3, I'm changing it to Make drivers/staging as a 
> matter of recourse.
> gcc version 13.2.1 20230826 (Gentoo 13.2.1_p20230826 p7)
> 
> I use checkpatch unflaged on the patch, never a problem before...
> 
> On Sun, Oct 22, 2023, at 2:48 AM, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
>> On 10/22/23 00:40, Gary Rookard wrote:
>> > Renamed from Pascal/CamelCase to Snake case the variable
>> > IsHTHalfNmodeAPs, IsHTHalfNmodeAPs -> is_ht_half_nmode_aps. Linux 
>> kernel
>> > coding style (cleanup) checkpatch Avoid CamelCase. Driver rtl8192e
>> > compiles. Signed-off-by: Gary Rookard <garyrookard@fastmail.org 
>> <mailto:garyrookard@fastmail.org>> ---
>> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_HTProc.c | 2 +-
>> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h | 2 +-
>> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 2 +- 3 files changed, 3
>> > insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I assume that now I cannot apply this patch anymore because the previous
>> one is missing.
>>
>> I propose to make a patch series out of the send in patches.
>> Please do a compile test and and use checkpatch.
>>
>> Please include in the version change at which version what changed.
>>
>> Thanks for your support.
>>
>> Bye Philipp
>>
> 

Hi Gary,

please use:
make -C . M=drivers/staging/rtl8192e

I am using checkpatch as described here:
https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch
"Git post-commit hooks"

Please always reply with Bottom Posting. You used top posting which is 
not liked by the community and maintainer.

Bye Philipp

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-10-22  7:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-10-21 22:40 [PATCH] staging: rtl8192e: renamed variable IsHTHalfNmodeAPs Gary Rookard
2023-10-22  6:48 ` Philipp Hortmann
     [not found]   ` <aa578599-cd87-4c3a-8040-03ab065d8482@app.fastmail.com>
2023-10-22  7:47     ` Philipp Hortmann [this message]
2023-10-22  8:42       ` Gary Rookard
2023-10-22 10:21 ` Greg KH
2023-10-22 10:22   ` Greg KH

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