linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wlan-ng: remove helper function prism2sta_inf

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Date:   Mon, 16 Oct 2023 11:46:40 +0300
From:   Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org>
To:     Calvince Otieno <calvncce@...il.com>
Cc:     outreachy@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Luke Koch <lu.ale.koch@...il.com>,
        Bagas Sanjaya <bagasdotme@...il.com>,
        Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] staging: wlan-ng: remove helper function
 prism2sta_inf_handover()

On Mon, Oct 16, 2023 at 07:40:57AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 07:04:56PM +0300, Calvince Otieno wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 3:12 PM Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...aro.org> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:50:23PM +0300, Calvince Otieno wrote:
> > > > prism2sta_inf_handover() function basically calls pr_debug() to print
> > > > a literal string. This can be done by the parent function directly.
> > > >
> > > > Signed-off-by: Calvince Otieno <calvncce@...il.com>
> > > > ---
> > > > Patch version v2:
> > > >       - Replace pr_debug() utility function with the module specific netdev_dbg()
> > >
> > > This isn't a v2 patch, right?  This patch assumes that we applied the
> > > v1 patch...
> > >
> > > This patch is not white space damaged though so that's good.
> > >
> > > regards,
> > > dan carpenter
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Hello Dan,
> > Does this response mean that the patch was accepted?
> 
> Ugh...  No, sorry.  I suck at emails.  White space damaged is not good.
> I left out the word not...  :/
> 
> You need to figure out what's going on there.  Some of your patches are
> not white space damaged so sometimes you're doing it right but here the
> spaces were replaced with tabs so it doesn't apply.

Wow...  I absolutely suck at writing emails and *reading emails*.  This
wasn't the white space damaged patch.  This was the okay one.

However you sent a v2 patch in the wrong way.  You just posted a fixup
instead of resending the patch.  You've sent v2 patches before but let
me send you my blog link anyway...

https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2022/07/27/how-to-send-a-v2-patch/

regards,
dan carpenter