linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Staging: wlags49_h2: fixed 80 line character and white space issue in ap_h2.c Fixed various coding style warnings found by the checkpatch.pl tool

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Date:	Fri, 2 Aug 2013 06:28:40 +0800
From:	Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:	Evan Ng <evan.sin.ng@...il.com>
Cc:	pe1dnn@...at.org, johanmeiring@...il.com,
	devel@...verdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: wlags49_h2: fixed 80 line character and white
 space issue in ap_h2.c Fixed various coding style warnings found by the
 checkpatch.pl tool

On Thu, Aug 01, 2013 at 03:08:21PM -0700, Evan Ng wrote:
> Thanks for the reply, 
> 
> Being this is my first patch that I have submitted, I want to clarify a few
> things:
> 
> My *corrected* subject should read something like this? 
> 
> "Subject: [PATCH] Staging: wlags49_h2: fixed 80 line character and white space
>                issue in ap_h2.c Fixed various coding style warnings found by
> the
>                checkpatch.pl tool
> \n
> LONGER DESCRIPTION GOES HERE"

No.

It should be:
	Subject: [PATCH] Staging: wlags48_h2: ap_h2.c: fixed tab whitespace issue

	This patch fixes the tab vs. spaces white space issues in this
	file.

	Signed-off-by: ....

> As for the doing "one thing at a time" would it be preferred if I fix the
> syntax of one function within a file a time?  Would that mean that for one
> simple .c file I could be making 15 or so commits to it?

How about fixing one specific warning at a time for the whole file?
Like tab issues, and then { issues, and then ' ' issues, and so on.  See
the archives of the mailing list for lots of examples of how to do this
properly.

hope this helps,

greg k-h
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