Re: [PATCH 1/5] Staging: rtl8187se: r8180.h: fixed alot of checkpatch.pl issues

[matt mooney <mfm@muteddisk.com>]

On 19:22 Wed 22 Sep     , Greg KH wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 22, 2010 at 04:24:58PM -0700, matt mooney wrote:
> > On 21:19 Mon 20 Sep     , Tracey Dent wrote:
> > > Fixed numerous coding style issues
> > > 
> > The subject should be more specific as to what the patch does, such as
> > "Staging: rtl8187se: r8180.h: whitespace cleanup."
> > 
> > And the explanation in the commit should also be more specific. There are
> > plenty of examples if you look through the log. Greg might except them as is,
> > but any future patches should follow the advice mentioned. Next time for a
> > patch of this nature remember to CC kernel-janitors too. 
> 
> Why the janitor list?  Do you really want that to be copied on every
> cleanup patch I get like this?  That would be a _lot_...

Heh, well hopefully not all the patches you receive. But there would have been
feedback sooner on this patch stating something along the lines of what I
said. The list is much lower volume making it is easier for devs doing cleanup,
like myself, to follow, so as to not duplicate our efforts. IMHO anyway.

While I have your attention, I am changing all makefiles to use the newer kbuild
flag variables, such as ccflags-y, asflags-y, and ldflags-y. I have already
completed this for all directories in the kernel except drivers which is
next. The patches are trivial but there are a lot in drivers, so should I break
it down by driver or is subdirectory okay? media/video has 85 instances in
something like 12 different subdirectories, so I am not sure what is
best. Please let me know what is best.

Thanks,
mfm