linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Fixed styling in riscv ucontext header

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Message-ID: <Y0K7PDzwuOPweYSm@spud>
Date:   Sun, 9 Oct 2022 13:14:52 +0100
From:   Conor Dooley <conor@...nel.org>
To:     Cleo John <waterdev@...axycrow.de>
Cc:     Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@...ive.com>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Albert Ou <aou@...s.berkeley.edu>,
        linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fixed styling in riscv ucontext header

Hey Cleo,

On Sun, Oct 09, 2022 at 02:03:40PM +0200, Cleo John wrote:
> Fixed styling in riscv ucontext header

This should probably be "riscv: fix styling..."

> This patch changes the two comments in ucontext.h by getting them up to the cody style proposed by torwalds. 

s/This patch changes/Change

Looks like some typos here too & your lines need to be wrapped at 72
characters for commit messages. git usually enforces that automatically
when you do a `git commit`.

> In my opinion this also improves the readability so I think this is a useful change to do.
> Please also tell me if you have a different opinion.

FYI commentary on the patch should go below the ---.

> 
> Signed-off-by: Cleo John <waterdev@...axycrow.de>
> ---
>  arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h | 6 ++++--
>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h
> index 44eb993950e5..0cd6f8616985 100644
> --- a/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h
> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/ucontext.h
> @@ -18,7 +18,8 @@ struct ucontext {
>  	/* There's some padding here to allow sigset_t to be expanded in the

Why fix the closing comment but leave the opening ones incorrect?

Thanks,
Conor.

>  	 * future.  Though this is unlikely, other architectures put uc_sigmask
>  	 * at the end of this structure and explicitly state it can be
> -	 * expanded, so we didn't want to box ourselves in here. */
> +	 * expanded, so we didn't want to box ourselves in here.
> +	 */
>  	__u8		  __unused[1024 / 8 - sizeof(sigset_t)];
>  	/* We can't put uc_sigmask at the end of this structure because we need
>  	 * to be able to expand sigcontext in the future.  For example, the
> @@ -27,7 +28,8 @@ struct ucontext {
>  	 * ucontext, so we're putting this at the end in order to allow for
>  	 * infinite extensibility.  Since we know this will be extended and we
>  	 * assume sigset_t won't be extended an extreme amount, we're
> -	 * prioritizing this. */
> +	 * prioritizing this.
> +	 */
>  	struct sigcontext uc_mcontext;
>  };
>  
> -- 
> 2.25.1
> 
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