Re: [PATCH 4/5] acpi: fix trivial warning

Daniel Walker
2009-11-15T17:17:58Z

On Fri, 2009-11-13 at 22:28 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 13, 2009 at 7:43 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> wrote:
> > On Thu, 2009-11-12 at 02:23 +0200, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM, Daniel Walker <dwalker@fifo99.com> wrote:
> >> > On Mon, 2009-09-14 at 17:34 +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> >> >> I did... the style issues are already there, my patch is not
> >> >> introducing them. Do you want me to send a separate patch to fix the
> >> >> existing style issues?
> >> >
> >> > Yes, If your inclined to clean up the whole file, or just the
> >> > surrounding code that would be helpful ..
> >>
> >> Nobody seems to like the patch you suggested me to do... did I wasted
> >> my time doing it?
> >> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.acpi.devel/42383
> >
> > Did you get some negative feedback ? I don't see any..
>
> Well:
> ---
> And after today's discussion on kernel summit on this topic, I wouldn't
> expect any maintainer to merge it, sorry :)
> ---
>
> That doesn't seem too positive. Or at least there's no indication that
> somebody will pick it up.

I'd re-submit with a better description of the patch. You should always
try to describe what your doing as accurately as possible so the
maintainer doesn't have to work very hard to know what your doing.. That
particular patch just has a one liner description that wasn't very
informative .. Either that or re-submit your series without that patch
if you don't have confidence in it.

Daniel