linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: fixed few coding style warnings

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Message-ID: <561EC340.8050304@caviumnetworks.com>
Date:	Wed, 14 Oct 2015 14:04:00 -0700
From:	David Daney <ddaney@...iumnetworks.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Sakshi Bansal <sakshi.april5@...il.com>,
	<gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>, <aaro.koskinen@...ia.com>,
	<ralf@...ux-mips.org>, <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	<paul.martin@...ethink.co.uk>, <aybuke.147@...il.com>,
	<helen.fornazier@...il.com>, <joe@...ches.com>,
	<okash.khawaja@...il.com>, <janne.huttunen@...ia.com>,
	<jamie.lawler@...il.com>, <robertoxmed@...il.com>,
	<jtk54@...nell.edu>, <devel@...verdev.osuosl.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <outreachy-kernel@...glegroups.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: fixed few coding style warnings

On 10/14/2015 01:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 14 October 2015 08:47:44 David Daney wrote:
>> On 10/14/2015 07:06 AM, Sakshi Bansal wrote:
>>> Fixed allignment issues and line over 80 characters
>>
>> Use spell checking on 'allignment'
>>
>> But that is not the main problem with the patch...
>>
>>
>> You are changing things other than white space and comment formatting,
>> can you tell us on which platforms the patch was tested to verify that
>> you didn't break anything?
>
> In general a good advice, but for trivial whitespace or comment
> changes, this is normally not necessary. Compile-testing a patch
> as you say is normally expected, if only to avoid embarrassing
> complaints if it does break later.
>
> For drivers that are not enabled in the x86 allmodconfig, it sure
> helps to say something like "Compile-tested using MIPS cross toolchain
> from https://www.kernel.org/pub/tools/crosstool/". Even better would
> be to send a fix to decouple the driver from asm/octeon/*.h
> to make it build on all architectures, but that is much more work
> than I'd expect for a trivial patch.

There is no point in such a patch.  We know, a priori, that there will 
*never* be a non-MIPS system with this hardware.

David Daney


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