Re: [PATCH 0/5] staging: rtl8712: Fixed Multiple FSF address checkpatch warnings

[Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@gmail.com>]

On Sunday, March 20, 2016 11:12:32 PM Parth Sane wrote:
> > Fixed Multiple FSF address checkpatch warnings to conform to kernel coding style.
> > 
> > Parth Sane (5):
> >  staging: rtl8712: Fixed FSF address warning in basic_types.h
> >  staging: rtl8712: Fixed FSF address warning in drv_types.h
> >  staging: rtl9712: Fixed FSF address warning in ethernet.h
> >  staging: rtl9712: Fixed FSF address warning in hal_init.c
> >  staging: rtl9712: Fixed FSF address warning in ieee80211.c
> > 
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/basic_types.h | 4 ----
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/drv_types.h   | 4 ----
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/ethernet.h    | 4 ----
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c    | 4 ----
> > drivers/staging/rtl8712/ieee80211.c   | 4 ----
> > 5 files changed, 20 deletions(-)
> > 
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> Hi,
> The thing is all these patches are related and have a cover letter explaining changes. But this seems to be a trivial change which is self explanatory.
> This should possibly suffice. What do you think?
> Regards,
> Parth Sane
The cover letter does not end up in the repository.
A cover letter can be helpful, but is not required.
You MUST, however add a descriptive commit message to
each patch for them to be accepted into the kernel.
See Documentation/SubmittingPatches in the kernel sources.