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From: Ian Abbott <abbotti@mev.co.uk>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>,
	Piotr Kubus <p.t.kubus@gmail.com>
Cc: Konrad Zapalowicz <bergo.torino@gmail.com>,
	gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fixed a code indent issue
Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 10:08:37 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <54ABB425.1080207@mev.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150106060226.GA4285@sudip-PC>

On 06/01/15 06:02, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 05, 2015 at 08:24:06PM +0100, Piotr Kubus wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 04, 2015 at 11:31:29PM +0100, Konrad Zapalowicz wrote:
>>> On 01/04, Piotr Kubus wrote:
>>>> This is a patch to the dmm32at.c file that fixes up a code indent error found by the checkpatch.pl tool.
>>>
>>> Nice however improve your commit message. The rule is that the lines
>>> should wrap at 72nd column except for quoted material such as compiler
>>> output, etc...
>>>
>>> The 72-character columns are important for allowing quoting and they
>>> play nicely with standard indentation from git log.
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>> I couldn't find that rule in Kernel documentation. Besides there were no
>> complaints from checkpatch.pl tool.
>
> Please check SubmittingPatches in Documentation. It says:
> 'the "summary" must be no more than 70-75 characters'

In this case, it's not the "summary" that's at issue, it's the body of 
the commit message, as Konrad mentioned above.

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  reply	other threads:[~2015-01-06 10:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-01-04 15:22 [PATCH] Staging: comedi: dmm32at: Fixed a code indent issue Piotr Kubus
2015-01-04 22:31 ` Konrad Zapalowicz
2015-01-05 19:24   ` Piotr Kubus
2015-01-06  6:02     ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-01-06 10:08       ` Ian Abbott [this message]
2015-01-06 10:27         ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-01-06 13:33           ` Konrad Zapalowicz
2015-01-06 13:50             ` Sudip Mukherjee
2015-01-06 10:06     ` Dan Carpenter
2015-01-10  0:59 ` Greg KH

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