linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/17] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: General source formatting cleanup

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Date:   Thu, 9 Nov 2017 08:13:17 -0600
From:   "Andrew F. Davis" <afd@...com>
To:     Mark Brown <broonie@...nel.org>
CC:     Liam Girdwood <lgirdwood@...il.com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Benoît Cousson <bcousson@...libre.com>,
        Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
        <alsa-devel@...a-project.org>, <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/17] ASoC: tlv320aic31xx: General source formatting
 cleanup

On 11/09/2017 06:41 AM, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 08, 2017 at 06:27:25PM -0600, Andrew F. Davis wrote:
>> Simple non-functional changes including:
>>
>>  * Fix header copyright tags
>>  * Fix spelling errors
>>  * Reformat code for easier reading
>>  * Move some code blocks to a more natural ordering
>>  * Remove unneeded code
>>  * Remove assignments that are always overridden
>>  * Normalize function return paths
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Andrew F. Davis <afd@...com>
> 
> There's other things in here like adding error reporting...  please
> don't send changes like this, if you want to do cleanups you should
> split them up in the same way you would other changes.  Bigger patches
> are harder to review especially if they're not repetitive examples of
> the same pattern.  
> 

I'm never really sure with these where the split point should be, almost
every change in here could be its own patch if I really wanted to pad my
kernel patch count, but this series is already 17 patches long and I
usually see these all as the same logical action: non-functional cleanups.

I agree the added error message isn't purely non-functional and so
should be broken out, I'll break out a couple other changes for v2.