Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2] staging: ks7010: remove code in comments.

["Tobin C. Harding" <me@tobin.cc>]

On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 04:07:27PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, 27 Feb 2017, Arushi Singhal wrote:
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> >
> >
> > On Mon, Feb 27, 2017 at 8:18 PM, Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:
> >       On Sun, Feb 26, 2017 at 09:38:20PM +0530, Arushi Singhal wrote:
> >       > Commenting Code Is a Bad Idea.
> >       > Comments are their to explain the code and how the code
> >       achieves its
> >       > goal and as codes in the comments  does not explain what the
> >       code is
> >       > doing so there is no use of commenting them.
> >       > So in this patch codes in the comments are removed.
> >       >
> >       > Signed-off-by: Arushi Singhal
> >       <arushisinghal19971997@gmail.com>
> >       > ---
> >       >  changes in v2
> >       >  - subject lines is made short.
> >       >
> >       >  drivers/staging/ks7010/ks7010_sdio.c | 4 ----
> >       >  1 file changed, 4 deletions(-)
> >
> >       This patch does not apply against my staging-testing branch :(
> >
> >
> > why?
> 
> You should figure this out yourself.  Pull Greg's tree again, and try to
> apply your patch.  It's deterministic, so you should have the same
> information that he has.

I have only just worked this out Arushi so I thought I'd share. You
may want to read up on remote tracking branches in git and set up a
branch tracking Greg's staging-testing branch. Then create (checkout
-b) your development branches from that branch.

Good luck,
Tobin.