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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Martin Karamihov <martinowar@gmail.com>, gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Cc: Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8188eu: remove not necessary braces {} (checkpatch fix)
Date: Thu, 02 Feb 2017 15:32:56 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1486078376.22276.54.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2933ae60-bc8a-278e-b81e-03924de72182@gmail.com>

On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 08:06 +0200, Martin Karamihov wrote:
> On 02/01/2017 08:11 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> > ...and clarifying the code for a
> > human reader is much more important than making a
> > file not have any checkpatch warnings.
> 
> I agree. I respect the developers' own coding style and believe that 
> some things (>80 characters long lines, name conventions, etc) should be 
> fixed by themselves (if they want to do that). I selected several TODOs 
> with requests for code cleanups and chose a fix in attempt to accomplish 
> my task with minimal inconvenience for the maintainers. I failed in my 
> first attempts breaking some basic rules, sorry about that.

No, not at all.  You did fine for a basic checkpatch cleanup.
I just wanted to tell you to think beyond checkpatch.

cheers, Joe

      reply	other threads:[~2017-02-02 23:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-28  8:49 [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: checkpatch fixes: removed not necessary braces {} Martin Karamihov
2017-01-28  9:11 ` Greg KH
2017-01-29 16:43   ` Bjørn Mork
2017-01-29 18:57     ` martinowar
2017-02-02 22:53     ` Joe Perches
2017-01-31 19:24 ` [PATCH v2] staging: rtl8188eu: remove not necessary braces {} (checkpatch fix) Martin Karamihov
2017-01-31 22:39   ` Joe Perches
2017-02-01 16:36     ` Martin Karamihov
2017-02-01 18:11       ` Joe Perches
2017-02-02  6:06         ` Martin Karamihov
2017-02-02 23:32           ` Joe Perches [this message]

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