netdev - Re: [PATCH 00/12] Gigaset driver patches for 2.6.32

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Date:	Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:51:51 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	dwalker@...o99.com
Cc:	tilman@...p.cc, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org, i4ldeveloper@...tserv.isdn4linux.de,
	hjlipp@....de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/12] Gigaset driver patches for 2.6.32

From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@...o99.com>
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2009 20:47:57 -0700

> On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 00:32 +0200, Tilman Schmidt wrote:
>> Daniel Walker wrote 07.09.09 16:30:
>> > Yeah, it looks like the whole file needs a checkpatch clean up..
>> Sounds
>> like your not willing to do that?
>> 
>> It's not a question of willingness. You may notice I did a lot of
>> cleanup work already. But it's very time consuming work, and there has
>> been more important work to attend to first.
>> 
>> > Usually if a checkpatch cleanup comes
>> first prior to all your other changes , it doesn't usually cloud the
>> rest of the changes..
>> 
>> Sure. But that would mean postponing the merging of bugfixes until
>> someone finds the time to do a complete checkpatch cleanup of the
>> affected code. I don't think that's a sensible approach.
> 
> You shouldn't be adding any new checkpatch errors, but you currently
> are .. Just clean up the individual patches w/o the entire gigaset
> driver, that should be do-able (it's even a basic submission
> requirement). The other issue is that your adding new files which aren't
> clean, those can certainly be cleaned up.

Right, this is a very reasonable request.
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