Re: [PATCH 1/3] drivers/staging/dt3155: Integrate 3 badly styled files into 1 clean file

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:30:03PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Tue, 2010-04-27 at 16:02 -0700, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 12:34:28AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > Make variables static where appropriate
> > > Rename dt3155_<foo_with_long_names> variables to dt_<foo_tla>
> > > to reduce code length and make more lines fit well in 80 chars
> > > Remove now unnecessary .h files
> > > Change indent to use tabs
> > > Remove unused functions
> > > Used bool more often
> > > Checkpatch clean
> > 
> > This is too much in one patch, sorry.
> 
> You should be more consistent.

I am human.

> http://www.tuxradar.com/content/newbies-guide-hacking-linux-kernel
> Greg even said, "submit one big patch if you want"

Yes, but I will then help to guide them to make it a more reasonable,
and reviewable, patch :)

> > It also doesn't apply due to
> > other changes in these files (that you then remove in patch 3) from
> > other developers.
> 
> No, it doesn't apply because you chose to apply other patches
> before this one.

Those patches were sent to me before yours, sorry.

thanks,

greg "slowly catching up" k-h