linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Remove the mistakes detected by the check tools.

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Date:	Fri, 22 Jan 2016 10:29:13 -0700
From:	Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org>
To:	Eric Long <eric.long@...aro.org>
Cc:	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@...aro.org>,
	Chunyan Zhang <zhang.chunyan@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/2] Remove the mistakes detected by the check tools.

On 22 January 2016 at 02:15, Eric Long <eric.long@...aro.org> wrote:
> On 22 January 2016 at 00:56, Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@...aro.org> wrote:
>>
>> Please run checkpath.pl on your patches.  Also if the changes are of a
>> different nature, ex. indentation problem and wrong argument to a
>> function, please provide two separate patches.
>>
>
> Hi Mathieu,
>
> I had already ran checkpath.pl, and there was no error and warning.

Using a 4.4 kernel I got the following chackpatch warnings:

mpoirier@...0:~/work/linaro/coresight/kernel-maint$
./scripts/checkpatch.pl
0001-coresight-Remove-the-mistakes-detected-by-sparse-too.patch
0002-coresight-Remove-the-mistakes-detected-by-smatch-too.patch
---------------------------------------------------------------
0001-coresight-Remove-the-mistakes-detected-by-sparse-too.patch
---------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: A patch subject line should describe the change not the tool
that found it
#4:
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] coresight: Remove the mistakes detected by sparse tool

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 32 lines checked

0001-coresight-Remove-the-mistakes-detected-by-sparse-too.patch has
style problems, please review.
---------------------------------------------------------------
0002-coresight-Remove-the-mistakes-detected-by-smatch-too.patch
---------------------------------------------------------------
WARNING: A patch subject line should describe the change not the tool
that found it
#4:
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] coresight: Remove the mistakes detected by smatch tool

total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 8 lines checked

0002-coresight-Remove-the-mistakes-detected-by-smatch-too.patch has
style problems, please review.

NOTE: If any of the errors are false positives, please report
      them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS.
mpoirier@...0:~/work/linaro/coresight/kernel-maint$ ls


> All the changes are either indentation problems or wrong argument,
> except one static defined problem. So I think there is no need to
> separate the patch.

After fixing the above checkpatch warning bunching changes by tools
won't make sense anymore.

> By the way, the patches I had send were created base on the check
> tools, one for smatch and another for sparse. In case I need to separate
> the patches, do I need to follow the this principle. Thanks.

It's usually one semantic change per patch - the tool that highlighted
the problem is secondary.

>
> Best Regards.
> Eric