linux-kernel - Re: staging:rtl8192u: [0/10] Coding style changes.

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Date:   Mon, 16 Jul 2018 10:40:20 +0200
From:   Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     John Whitmore <johnfwhitmore@...il.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        tglx@...utronix.de, kstewart@...uxfoundation.org,
        pombredanne@...b.com
Subject: Re: staging:rtl8192u: [0/10] Coding style changes.

On Fri, Jul 13, 2018 at 09:12:37PM +0100, John Whitmore wrote:
> All coding style changes, but the second [2/10] is a bit more hairy then
> most. The original code combined two typedef declarations into one with both
> the structure and a pointer to the structure defined. I've totally removed the
> pointer to the structure type since it uses Hungarian notation, which the
> coding standard isn't keen on.
> 
> As a result of this there are changes in code from the type:
> PStructType  *ppname;
> to:
> struct StructType **ppname;
> 
> To keep the diff simple I've kept the current nameing of "ppname", which again
> is Hungarian notation. I'll leave that for a future patch.

Nit, your subject should look like:

Subject: [PATCH 00/10] staging:rtl8192u: Coding style changes.

What are you using to generate this email?  git format-patch
--cover-letter should generate it with a correct subject line prefix,
right?

thanks,

greg k-h