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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To: Alessandro Rubini <rubini@gnudd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, riehecky@fnal.gov, federico.vaga@cern.ch
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 1/5] drivers/fmc: remove unused variable
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 09:23:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170718072349.GA15087@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170718070029.GA24230@mail.gnudd.com>

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 09:00:29AM +0200, Alessandro Rubini wrote:
> > Again, I do not like to take patches without any changelog text at all
> > :(
> 
> Sorry, I added this after the "---" line. I thought it was this one the
> missing item:
> 
>  V3 (Alessandro): fixed From line in patch, added alessandro's acked-by
> 
>  V2 (Pat): added Tested-by and incorrect From line
> 
>  V1 (Pat): picked from ohwr.org repo, where most fmc users pick from.

Ah, sorry, wrong "changelog".  I meant the area that shows up in git
about what this patch does.  There's no description of it other than the
Subject line.  While this is a simple patch, it is always good to say
something like "variable foo was set but never actually used, so it's
safe to remove it as the function it called did not change the hardware
state" or something like that.

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2017-07-18  7:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-07-18  6:32 [PATCH V3 1/5] drivers/fmc: remove unused variable Alessandro Rubini
2017-07-18  6:53 ` Greg KH
2017-07-18  7:00   ` Alessandro Rubini
2017-07-18  7:23     ` Greg KH [this message]
2017-07-18  7:30       ` Alessandro Rubini

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