Re: wireless-drivers: random cleanup patches piling up

Sudip Mukherjee
2016-02-01T04:41:51Z

On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 10:08:23AM +0200, Kalle Valo wrote:
> Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> writes:
>
> >> >> That's also my experience from maintaining wireless-drivers for a year,
> >> >> this seems to be a "hit and run" type of phenomenon.
> >> >
> >> > Should we be looking for someone to run a "wireless-driver-cleanups"
> >> > tree? They could handle the cleanups and trivial stuff, and send
> >> > you a pull request a couple of times per release...?
> >>
> >> Not a bad idea! But I don't think we need a separate tree as applying
> >> patches from patchwork is easy. It should be doable that we add an
> >> account to patchwork and whenever I see a this type of trivial cleanup
> >> patch I'll assign it to the cleanup maintainer and whenever he/she
> >> thinks it's ready he assigns the patch back to me and I'll apply it.
> >>
> >> The only difficult part is finding a victim/volunteer to
> >> do that ;)
> >
> > I can be a volunteer (victim?). Though i donot know much about
> > wireless-drivers, but I do know a little about cleanup patches.
> > And maybe, in the process I will start knowing wireless-drivers.
>
> I think it's better that you have prior experience with linux-wireless
> before doing something like this. You can start by reviewing patches and
> providing Reviewed-by tags.

Sure, I am starting that way. I checked in patchwork and I do not see
any checkpatch related patch pending (except staging, which Greg will
handle). I think you must have cleared all of them.

regards
sudip