linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] USB: OHCI: ohci-pxa27x: remove useless functions

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Message-ID: <20161201071745.GE14521@kroah.com>
Date:   Thu, 1 Dec 2016 08:17:45 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     csmanjuvijay@...il.com
Cc:     Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, linux-usb@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] USB: OHCI: ohci-pxa27x: remove useless functions

On Wed, Nov 30, 2016 at 11:59:49PM +0000, csmanjuvijay@...il.com wrote:
> From: Manjunath Goudar <csmanjuvijay@...il.com>
> 
> The ohci_hcd_pxa27x_drv_probe function is not doing anything other
> than calling usb_hcd_pxa27x_probe function so ohci_hcd_pxa27x_drv_probe
> function is useless that is why removed ohci_hcd_pxa27x_drv_probe
> function and renamed usb_hcd_pxa27x_probe function to
> ohci_hcd_pxa27x_drv_probe for proper naming.
> 
> The ohci_hcd_pxa27x_remove function is also not doing anything other than
> calling usb_hcd_pxa27x_remove that is why removed ohci_hcd_pxa27x_remove
> function and renamed usb_hcd_pxa27x_remove to ohci_hcd_pxa27x_remove for
> proper naming.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Manjunath Goudar <csmanjuvijay@...il.com>
> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
> Cc: linux-usb@...r.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
> 
> Changelog v1 -> v2:
> 1.Removed warnings and errors of checkpatch.pl script.
> 2.Replaced unuseful with useless in patch commit message for proper meaning.
> 3.Removed usb_disabled() from ohci_hcd_pxa27x_drv_probe function because it
>   is already existing in ohci_pxa27x_init function
> ---
>  drivers/usb/host/ohci-pxa27x.c | 42 ++++++++++++++----------------------------
>  1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

changelog should go below --- line.


> 
> diff --git a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-pxa27x.c b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-pxa27x.c
> index a667cf2..171f28f2 100644
> --- a/drivers/usb/host/ohci-pxa27x.c
> +++ b/drivers/usb/host/ohci-pxa27x.c
> @@ -157,9 +157,9 @@ static int pxa27x_ohci_select_pmm(struct pxa27x_ohci *pxa_ohci, int mode)
>  		uhcrhdb |= (0x7<<17);
>  		break;
>  	default:
> -		printk( KERN_ERR
> +		printk(KERN_ERR

No, don't do checkpatch cleanups in portions of the code you are not
actually changing for your "real" patch.  That's a mess.

You can send checkpatch patches as follow-on patches, but not with this
one.

thanks,

greg k-h