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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	david@woodhou.se, david.woodhouse@intel.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver
Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:00:44 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110210180044.GD13795@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b9dded$htd8nk@orsmga002.jf.intel.com>

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:54:57AM -0800, Oren Weil wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig

Where is the description?

Where is the signed-off-by line?

> index b7980a8..0a54b26 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -1144,5 +1144,16 @@ config RAMOOPS
>  	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
>  	  buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point.
>  
> +config INTEL_MEI
> +	tristate "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)"

What's with the (R) symbols everywhere?  The Linux kernel is not a place
for this.

> +	default m

No, this is not a valid default.

> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86
> +	help
> +	  If you have an Intel(R) ME chip in your system 

Trailing whitespace, which shows that you didn't take the simple time to
run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, so why should we take
time to review them?

And you don't add a config option as your first patch, it does nothing
at this point in time for any code that is existing in the kernel.

greg k-h

  parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-10 18:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-10  9:54 [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver Oren Weil
2011-02-10 16:50 ` Randy Dunlap
2011-02-10 18:00 ` Greg KH [this message]
2011-02-11  8:57   ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-02-11  9:19     ` David Woodhouse
2011-02-11 14:53     ` Greg KH

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