linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Net: ipv4: fixed a coding style issue

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Message-ID: <20250723185047.GL1036606@horms.kernel.org>
Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2025 19:50:47 +0100
From: Simon Horman <horms@...nel.org>
To: Ali Ghaffarian <alighaffarian9@...il.com>
Cc: davem@...emloft.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Net: ipv4: fixed a coding style issue

On Wed, Jul 23, 2025 at 12:17:36PM +0330, Ali Ghaffarian wrote:
> Fixed a coding style issue.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ali Ghaffarian <alighaffarian9@...il.com>

Hi Ali,

Unfortunately we don't accept clean-up patches of this nature
for Networking code unless they are part of a broader set of changes.

Quoting documentation:

  Clean-up patches
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

  Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are not in
  the context of other work. For example:

  * Addressing ``checkpatch.pl`` warnings
  * Addressing :ref:`Local variable ordering<rcs>` issues
  * Conversions to device-managed APIs (``devm_`` helpers)

  This is because it is felt that the churn that such changes produce comes
  at a greater cost than the value of such clean-ups.

  Conversely, spelling and grammar fixes are not discouraged.

See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#clean-up-patches
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