linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

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Date:	Thu, 10 Feb 2011 10:00:44 -0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
To:	Oren Weil <oren.jer.weil@...el.com>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	david@...dhou.se, david.woodhouse@...el.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 01/13] Intel(R) MEI Driver

On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 01:54:57AM -0800, Oren Weil wrote:
> diff --git a/drivers/char/Kconfig b/drivers/char/Kconfig

Where is the description?

Where is the signed-off-by line?

> index b7980a8..0a54b26 100644
> --- a/drivers/char/Kconfig
> +++ b/drivers/char/Kconfig
> @@ -1144,5 +1144,16 @@ config RAMOOPS
>  	  This enables panic and oops messages to be logged to a circular
>  	  buffer in RAM where it can be read back at some later point.
>  
> +config INTEL_MEI
> +	tristate "Intel(R) Management Engine Interface (Intel(R) MEI)"

What's with the (R) symbols everywhere?  The Linux kernel is not a place
for this.

> +	default m

No, this is not a valid default.

> +	depends on EXPERIMENTAL && X86
> +	help
> +	  If you have an Intel(R) ME chip in your system 

Trailing whitespace, which shows that you didn't take the simple time to
run your patches through scripts/checkpatch.pl, so why should we take
time to review them?

And you don't add a config option as your first patch, it does nothing
at this point in time for any code that is existing in the kernel.

greg k-h
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