Re: [PATCH resend] media: staging: stkwebcam: Restore MEDIA_{USB,CAMERA}_SUPPORT dependencies

Tommaso Merciai
2022-11-23T10:49:39Z

Hi Gaert,

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:13:31AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Tommaso,
>
> On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 11:08 AM Tommaso Merciai
> <tommaso.merciai@amarulasolutions.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 21, 2022 at 04:58:33PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > > By moving support for the USB Syntek DC1125 Camera to staging, the
> > > dependencies on MEDIA_USB_SUPPORT and MEDIA_CAMERA_SUPPORT were lost.
> > >
> > > Fixes: 56280c64ecacc971 ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")
> >
> > Patch itself looks good but we have some style issue. Applying this
> > patch I got the following warning from checkpatchl:
> >
> > WARNING: Please use correct Fixes: style 'Fixes: <12 chars of sha1> (" ")' - ie: 'Fixes: 56280c64ecac ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")'
> > #10:
> >
> > You have to pass only the first 12 chars of the sha1 commit into Fixes
> > msg:
> >
> > Use:
> >
> > Fixes: 56280c64ecac ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")
> >
> > Instead of:
> >
> > Fixes: 56280c64ecacc971 ("media: stkwebcam: deprecate driver, move to staging")
>
> I always use 16 chars, to avoid these becoming ambiguous in a few years.
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Thanks for sharing this info.

Regards,
Tommaso

>
> Geert
>
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>
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Tommaso Merciai
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