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From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: "Weil, Oren jer" <oren.jer.weil@intel.com>
Cc: "akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"david@woodhou.se" <david@woodhou.se>,
	"Woodhouse, David" <david.woodhouse@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver
Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2011 06:53:16 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110211145316.GA13146@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <F28B59AD52D84B479DCA46982447533506505D9ACE@hasmsx503.ger.corp.intel.com>

On Fri, Feb 11, 2011 at 10:57:31AM +0200, Weil, Oren jer wrote:
> Hi
> 
> 1) For the review purpose we wanted to split the patches into files, so the
> only way we found to do it is using "git diff", this is they there is not
> signed-off-by line
> Maybe I should have adding a description for every file, I can send another
> mail with the descriptions, sorry for the mess.

Again, please read the documentation on how to properly send patches.
We write it for a reason, not to just be ignored.

Actually, if you do ignore it, it's easy for us to ignore you, and
somehow I doubt you want that.

> 2) "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)" - is our official
> name.

That's nice, but it's not anything that kernel developers want to see
all the time.  Drop the (R) please, it's pointless within the kernel
sources.

> 3) we ran checkpatch.pl on every file, this file my by skipped by mistake.

It wasn't the only file you skipped, I saw lots of coding style
violations in the other files, so I really don't believe you.

good luck,

greg k-h

      parent reply	other threads:[~2011-02-11 14:52 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
2011-02-11  8:57   ` Weil, Oren jer
2011-02-11  9:19     ` David Woodhouse
2011-02-11 14:53     ` Greg KH [this message]

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