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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Krish Jain <krishjain02939@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-staging@lists.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix formatting for file "hsdma-mt7621.c"
Date: Sat, 4 Sep 2021 08:02:41 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YTMMAS+veKFAwRi7@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPGkw+yKQx+O3yfxxMgv9oyH2-pun5-g=+mFWQ_YwbfXp1Y6cA@mail.gmail.com>

On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 08:54:33PM +0200, Krish Jain wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 3, 2021 at 7:11 PM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, Sep 03, 2021 at 05:49:46PM +0200, Krish Jain wrote:
> > > On Thu, Sep 2, 2021 at 11:09 AM Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Thu, Sep 02, 2021 at 01:13:39PM +0200, Krish Jain wrote:
> > > > > This patch fixes the format of the code. It properly formats lines that should not end with a '(' as suggested by checkpath.pl.
> > > >
> > > > Please properly line-wrap your changelog text like your editor asked you
> > > > to.
> > > >
> > > > Also, your subject line needs work, look at other commits for this
> > > > driver with:
> > > >         git log --oneline drivers/staging/mt7621-dma/
> > > > and notice how they say the driver name and the subsystem.
> > > >
> > > > Please fix up and resend a v2.
> > > >
> > > > thanks,
> > > >
> > > > greg k-h
> > >
> > > Do you mean I should line-wrap (at 72 columns) the entire thing or
> > > only that line?
> >
> > Your whole changelog text needs to be wrapped at 72 columns.
> >
> > Look at the 'git log' in the kernel tree for hundreds of thousands of
> > examples :)
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > greg k-h
> 
> Hi, so you mean only the change-log text (as in the text telling what
> changes have been made) needs to be wrapped at 72 columns but the code
> itself (the git diff) doesn't, right ?

Yes, just the text that you add to the commit message.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-09-04  6:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-09-02 11:13 [PATCH] Fix formatting for file "hsdma-mt7621.c" Krish Jain
2021-09-02  9:09 ` Greg KH
2021-09-02 20:24   ` Krish Jain
2021-09-03  6:24     ` Greg KH
2021-09-03 15:30       ` Krish Jain
2021-09-03 15:49   ` Krish Jain
2021-09-03 17:11     ` Greg KH
2021-09-03 18:54       ` Krish Jain
2021-09-04  6:02         ` Greg KH [this message]
2021-09-04 11:11           ` Krish Jain
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-09-02 11:11 Krish Jain
2021-09-01 21:37 ` Krish Jain

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