linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rts5208: Add more details to Kconfig help

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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 14:21:52 -0500
From: Jacob Lott <jklott.git@...il.com>
To: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>, Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc: linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rts5208: Add more details to Kconfig help


On 1/18/24 2:19 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>
> On 1/18/24 10:59, Greg KH wrote:
>> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:59:48PM -0500, Jacob Lott wrote:
>>> The current help text is short and triggers a
>>> warning from checkpatch.pl. This patch adds more
>>> details to the help text which should provide better
>>> information for whether or not to enable the driver.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Jacob Lott <jklott.git@...il.com>
>>> ---
>>>   drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig | 10 +++++++---
>>>   1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig
>>> index b864023d3ccb..c4664a26ba3b 100644
>>> --- a/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig
>>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig
>>> @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ config RTS5208
>>>   	tristate "Realtek PCI-E Card Reader RTS5208/5288 support"
>>>   	depends on PCI && SCSI
>>>   	help
>>> -	  Say Y here to include driver code to support the Realtek
>>> -	  PCI-E card reader rts5208/rts5288.
>>> +	  Choose Y here to enable support for the Realtek PCI-E card reader
>>> +	  RTS5208/5288. This driver facilitates communication between the Linux
>>> +	  kernel and the Realtek PCI-E card reader.
>>>   
>>> -	  If this driver is compiled as a module, it will be named rts5208.
>>> +	  If you opt to compile this driver as a module, it will be named rts5208.
>>> +	  Selecting N will exclude this driver from the kernel build. Choose option
>>> +	  Y if your system includes the Realtek PCI-E card reader rts5208/rts5288.
>>> +	  When in doubt, it is generally safe to select N.
>>> -- 
>>> 2.34.1
>>>
>>> v3 fixes the tab spacing for line 6 in Kconfig
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
>> a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
>> to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
>> writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
>> created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
>> in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
>> kernel tree.
>>
>> You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s)
>> as indicated below:
>>
>> - This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
>>    did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.
> Jacob,
> Immediately below the "---" line, not at the end of the patch.
>
>
>>    Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the
>>    kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what
>>    needs to be done here to properly describe this.
>>
>> If you wish to discuss this problem further, or you have questions about
>> how to resolve this issue, please feel free to respond to this email and
>> Greg will reply once he has dug out from the pending patches received
>> from other developers.
>>
>> thanks,
>>
>> greg k-h's patch email bot
>>
Just sent a fixed version over. I appreciate the feedback and patience 
on this.