Re: [PATCH v2] staging: comedi: fix coding style issues

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, May 20, 2015 at 02:54:16PM +0000, Geliang Tang wrote:
> On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 12:37:09PM +0100, Ian Abbott wrote:
> > On 16/05/15 05:16, Geliang Tang wrote:
> > >1) Fixed an error found by checkpatch.pl.
> > >    ERROR: space required after that ',' (ctx:VxV)
> > >    ./drivers/ni_mio_common.c:3764
> > >2) Changed "register 0x%x" to "register=0x%x" to keep the consistency
> > >    of this file.
> > >3) The kernel version is next-20150515, 4.1.0-rc3.
> > 
> > You shouldn't mention point 3 in the commit message as it will look a bit
> > strange when it ends up in the commit log.  If you need to mention that, it
> > should go after the commit message, separated from the patch by a "---" line
> > like this:
> > 
> > Body of commit message goes here.
> > 
> > Signed off by and Cc lines go here.
> > ---
> > Additional patch commentary goes here.
> > ---
> > Actual patch goes here.
> > 
> > Git will ignore the additional commentary when the patch is applied.
> > 
> > >
> > >Signed-off-by: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
> > >---
> > >  drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > >
> > >diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
> > >index 9dfd4e6..6cc304a 100644
> > >--- a/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
> > >+++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ni_mio_common.c
> > >@@ -3761,7 +3761,7 @@ static unsigned int ni_gpct_to_stc_register(struct comedi_device *dev,
> > >  	if (reg < ARRAY_SIZE(ni_gpct_to_stc_regmap)) {
> > >  		regmap = &ni_gpct_to_stc_regmap[reg];
> > >  	} else {
> > >-		dev_warn(dev->class_dev,"%s: unhandled register 0x%x\n",
> > >+		dev_warn(dev->class_dev, "%s: unhandled register=0x%x\n",
> > >  			 __func__, reg);
> > >  		return 0;
> > >  	}
> > >
> > 
> > Apart from that niggle, the patch looks good!
> > 
> > Reviewed-by: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
> > 
> > -- 
> > -=( Ian Abbott @ MEV Ltd.    E-mail: <abbotti@mev.co.uk> )=-
> > -=(                          Web: http://www.mev.co.uk/  )=-
> 
> Thank you for your review. I revised the patch as you suggested.
> Here it is.

> >From d864f6af18a44031a241e10e64d98f9e6b8c0660 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: Geliang Tang <geliangtang@163.com>
> Date: Wed, 20 May 2015 14:26:13 +0000
> Subject: [PATCH v2] staging: comedi: fix coding style issues
> 
> 1) Fixed an error found by checkpatch.pl.
>    ERROR: space required after that ',' (ctx:VxV)
>    ./drivers/ni_mio_common.c:3764
> 2) Changed "register 0x%x" to "register=0x%x" to keep the consistency
>    of this file.

That's multiple things in one patch :(

Also, this is an attachment, which I can't apply, please resend it as a
proper email.

thanks,

greg k-h