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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
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