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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 15:17:52 -0600
From: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@...deen.net>
To: Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
Ozgur Karatas <okaratas@...ber.fsf.org>,
"david@...morbit.com" <david@...morbit.com>
Cc: "linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org" <linux-xfs@...r.kernel.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fixed to codestyle
On 12/12/16 2:50 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 14:41 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 12/12/16 2:34 PM, Ozgur Karatas wrote:
> []
>>> Can you tell me the true code style? should use to (* uuid)?
>>> I'm learn to new and I'm newbies :)
>>
>> Well, rule #1 for newbies is "code style patches aren't
>> very useful, and usually are not welcomed by the project."
>
> I'd amend that to
>
> "newbies should only use checkpatch on files in drivers/staging/"
>
> and are generally welcome to do exactly that in order to learn
> how to submit patches appropriately before finding something
> actually useful to change in other areas of the kernel.
Ok, that's a fair amendment. :)
-Eric
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