linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: sm750b: Fix coding style issues in sm750

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Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 14:13:31 +0100
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Jeremy Lacomis <j.lacomis@...il.com>
Cc:     Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com>,
        Teddy Wang <teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com>,
        linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: sm750b: Fix coding style issues in
 sm750_accel.c

On Sat, Nov 25, 2017 at 05:48:11PM -0500, Jeremy Lacomis wrote:
> This is a patch to sm750_accel.c that fixes 80-character line length
> warnings found by checkpatch.pl. It also fixes some grammatical errors
> in comments and moves parameter-specific comments from inline to before
> the function.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jeremy Lacomis <j.lacomis@...il.com>
> ---
> Changes in v2:
> - Change function comments to the kernel-doc format
> 
>  drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750_accel.c | 189 ++++++++++++++++++----------------
>  1 file changed, 103 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750_accel.c b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750_accel.c
> index 1035e91e7cd3..42cd920111bf 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750_accel.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/sm750fb/sm750_accel.c
> @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
> -// SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0
> +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */

Why did you change this line?  That is not correct.

Only ever do one "logical" thing per patch.  If you have to say "also"
in a changelog text, that's a huge hint you are doing something wrong.

thanks,

greg k-h