Re: [PATCH] fix warnings that occur on make *docs

[Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>]

Thomas Davies wrote:
> On 3/1/07, Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, 1 Mar 2007 10:39:41 -0800 Thomas Davies wrote:
>>
>> > From: Thomas Davies <daviesth@onid.orst.edu>
>> >
>> > Cleaned up comments and whitespace in /drivers/message/fusion/*.c 
>> and also
>> > /lib/bitmap.c to remove make *docs warnings.  An attempt by a newbie
>> > to contribute
>> > in some small way to the codebase.  Did I do it right?
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Your patch looks fine (until I tested it), but I have already
>> corrected these warnings.  The patches have been in the -mm patchset
>> for awhile and Andrew has sent some of it to Linus to be merged.
>> Other parts need to go thru other maintainers.
> 
> Thank you for the feedback Randy.  Looks like I missed a step in the cycle;
> I cloned Linus' tree with git from
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/[...]/torvalds/linux-2.6.git,
> was this wrong?  Is there another tree I should be cloning, or do I
> apply the -mm
> patch from kernel.org before making this sort of change? (The latter I 
> suspect.)

I don't think that my patches have been merged by Linus yet (sent by
Andrew, but there must be some delay there :) .

To see if anything has already been patched, it often takes reviewing
both Linus's tree and Andrew's -mm patches.  Hopefully we don't also
need to review all gits of all maintainers, since Andrew tries to
merge all of those into the -mm patchset.

>> > Signed-off-by: Thomas Davies <daviesth@onid.orst.edu>
>> > ---
>> > diff -uprN -X linux-2.6/Documentation/dontdiff
>> > linux-2.6/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
>> > linux-2.6-new/drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c
>>
>> Looks like your mail client split these lines (above and below)
>> so that 'patch' cannot apply the patch.
>> lkml.org shows the same splitting, so I guess it's not my
>> mail client on the reading end that is doing this.
> 
> I thought I could get away with using gmail in plain text mode, guess
> I'll go back to using mutt.

gmail works if you use the SMTP interface to it (or probably with
attachments, but they aren't good for reviews/reviewers).
Yes, mutt works.

-- 
~Randy
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