linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtdswap: fix spelling mistake "erassure" -> "erasure"

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Date:   Tue, 22 Nov 2016 13:32:27 -0800
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Brian Norris <computersforpeace@...il.com>
Cc:     Colin King <colin.king@...onical.com>,
        David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
        Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon@...e-electrons.com>,
        Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@...il.com>,
        Richard Weinberger <richard@....at>,
        Cyrille Pitchen <cyrille.pitchen@...el.com>,
        linux-mtd@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mtd: mtdswap: fix spelling mistake "erassure" ->
 "erasure"

On Tue, 2016-11-22 at 11:37 -0800, Brian Norris wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2016 at 11:51:47AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > I'd suggest as well fixing all the dev_<level> uses
> > to be a consistent form: (this also fixes the typo)
> > and a few other bits
> > 
> > o Coalesce formats
> > o Realign arguments
> > o Add missing newlines
> 
> Yeah, Colin missed this on the line he was fixing.
> 
> > o Convert printk(KERN_<LEVEL> to pr_<level>(
> > o Add #define pr_fmt, remove MTDSWAP_PREFIX
> > 
> > Reduces object size a little too
> 
> Thanks, these all look good but:
> 
>  (a) you didn't provide a Signed-off-by and
>  (b) your patch is full of non-breaking spaces (0xA0), instead of proper
>  ASCII spaces (0x20)
> 
> I feel like we've had this conversation before about your Evolution
> mailer a long time ago; you still haven't fixed that?
> 
> I'm sorry, but I just can't take your patch. I'm not going to hand-edit
> this one...

No worries, it was an unsigned patch suggestion, not
a formal patch.  I know the difference.

And have you ever looked at the evolution source code?
At best, it's pretty convoluted.
There's _no way_ I want to touch it.