Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: fixed few coding style warnings

[David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com>]

On 10/14/2015 01:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2015 08:47:44 David Daney wrote:
>> On 10/14/2015 07:06 AM, Sakshi Bansal wrote:
>>> Fixed allignment issues and line over 80 characters
>>
>> Use spell checking on 'allignment'
>>
>> But that is not the main problem with the patch...
>>
>>
>> You are changing things other than white space and comment formatting,
>> can you tell us on which platforms the patch was tested to verify that
>> you didn't break anything?
>
> In general a good advice, but for trivial whitespace or comment
> changes, this is normally not necessary. Compile-testing a patch
> as you say is normally expected, if only to avoid embarrassing
> complaints if it does break later.
>
> For drivers that are not enabled in the x86 allmodconfig, it sure
> helps to say something like "Compile-tested using MIPS cross toolchain
> from https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/". Even better would
> be to send a fix to decouple the driver from asm/octeon/*.h
> to make it build on all architectures, but that is much more work
> than I'd expect for a trivial patch.

There is no point in such a patch.  We know, a priori, that there will 
*never* be a non-MIPS system with this hardware.

David Daney