Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: rtl8188eu: Add space around operators

[Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 2020-03-08 at 16:05 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-03-09 at 03:30 +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> > Add space around operators for improving the code
> > readability.
> 
> Hello again Shreeya.
> 
I have some questions here...

> The subject isn't really quite appropriate as you
> are not doing this space around operator addition
> for the entire subsystem.
> 
> IMO, the subject should be:
> 
> [PATCH] staging: rtl8188eu: rtw_mlme: Add spaces around operators
> 
> because you are only performing this change on this
> single file.
> 
> If you were to do this for every single file in the
> subsystem, you could have many individual patches with
> the exact same subject line.
> 
> And it would be good to show in the changelog that you
> have compiled the file pre and post patch without object
> code change.
> 
I'm not sure how to show this. Do you mean to add the output of
"make drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core" before and after the changes?

I also don't understand the meaning of no object code change. If we are
making the changes to code and then compiling it using the make command
then a new file with .o extension is created and replaced by the
previous one isn't it?  

> Also, it's good to show that git diff -w shows no source
> file changes.
> 

And this has to be...
git diff -w --shortstat drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/

Am I correct?

Thanks

> > Reported by checkpatch.pl
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Shreeya Patel <shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com>
> > ---
> >  drivers/staging/rtl8188eu/core/rtw_mlme.c | 40 +++++++++++------
> > ------
> >  1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 20 deletions(-)
> 
> When I try this using checkpatch --fix-inplace, I get
> 21 changes against the latest -next tree.
> 
> What tree are you doing this against?
> 
>