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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
	Ozgur Karatas <okaratas@member.fsf.org>,
	"david@fromorbit.com" <david@fromorbit.com>
Cc: "linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fixed to codestyle
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:50:38 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1481575838.1764.39.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cbf01379-fbcb-b42e-abc1-1b368b9d6633@sandeen.net>

On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 14:41 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 12/12/16 2:34 PM, Ozgur Karatas wrote:
[]
> > Can you tell me the true code style? should use to (* uuid)? 
> > I'm learn to new and I'm newbies :)
> 
> Well, rule #1 for newbies is "code style patches aren't
> very useful, and usually are not welcomed by the project."

I'd amend that to

"newbies should only use checkpatch on files in drivers/staging/"

and are generally welcome to do exactly that in order to learn
how to submit patches appropriately before finding something
actually useful to change in other areas of the kernel.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-12 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-12-12 10:53 [PATCH 1/1] Fixed to codestyle Ozgur Karatas
2016-12-12 13:49 ` Eric Sandeen
2016-12-12 18:14   ` Joe Perches
2016-12-12 18:35     ` Eric Sandeen
2016-12-12 20:34       ` Ozgur Karatas
2016-12-12 20:41         ` Eric Sandeen
2016-12-12 20:49           ` Ozgur Karatas
2016-12-12 20:50           ` Joe Perches [this message]
2016-12-12 20:54             ` Ozgur Karatas
2016-12-12 21:17             ` Eric Sandeen
2016-12-12 20:31     ` Ozgur Karatas

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