linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] driver core: fix statics initilisation

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Message-ID: <20190416134009.GB17762@kroah.com>
Date:   Tue, 16 Apr 2019 15:40:09 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     Willy Wolff <willy.mh.wolff.ml@...il.com>
Cc:     "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael@...nel.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] driver core: fix statics initilisation

On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 04:29:01PM +0100, Willy Wolff wrote:
> Thank you for your review.
> 
> I follow https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch to write this patch.
> It's not stated that checkpatch.pl is for new patches only. Moreover,
> https://kernelnewbies.org/FirstKernelPatch#Running_checkpatch.pl suggest to
> run over the entire file.

FirstKernelPatch is a good thing to do in drivers/staging/, not anywhere
else in the kernel tree unless you _KNOW_ the maintainer of that
subsystem is ok to take tiny cleanup patches like this.

thanks,

greg k-h