From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>
Cc: Ionut Alexa <ionut.m.alexa@gmail.com>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel:module Fix coding style errors and warnings.
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 07:46:03 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1413470763.6702.3.camel@perches.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141016125724.GA5244@sudip-PC>
On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 18:27 +0530, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2014 at 02:38:53AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > On Thu, 2014-10-16 at 12:36 +0300, Ionut Alexa wrote:
> > > Fixed codin style errors and warnings. Changes printk with
> > > print_debug/warn. Changed seq_printf to seq_puts.
> > If you are going to do style cleanups, please make
> > sure you check your patches with scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > before sending them.
[]
> should we be doing style cleanups in the kernel files ?
Generally, no.
> previously i saw comments discouraging it as it pollutes the git blame.
Also generally, style only patches are discouraged
but can be done as part of a series when enhancements,
bug-fixes or optimizations are done.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-16 14:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-10-16 9:36 [PATCH] kernel:module Fix coding style errors and warnings Ionut Alexa
2014-10-16 9:38 ` Joe Perches
2014-10-16 12:57 ` Sudip Mukherjee
2014-10-16 14:46 ` Joe Perches [this message]
2014-10-16 10:35 Ionut Alexa
2014-10-16 23:06 ` Rusty Russell
2014-10-17 8:32 Ionut Alexa
2014-10-19 23:57 ` Rusty Russell
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