netdev - Re: [PATCH] brcm80211: remove redundant condition check before debugfs_remove

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Message-ID: <877ejg1hcd.fsf@kamboji.qca.qualcomm.com>
Date:   Thu, 20 Sep 2018 15:30:42 +0300
From:   Kalle Valo <kvalo@...eaurora.org>
To:     zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
Cc:     <davem@...emloft.net>, <hante.meuleman@...adcom.com>,
        <franky.lin@...adcom.com>, <arend.vanspriel@...adcom.com>,
        <linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org>,
        <brcm80211-dev-list.pdl@...adcom.com>, <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] brcm80211: remove redundant condition check before debugfs_remove_recursive

zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com> writes:

> On 2018/9/20 20:07, Kalle Valo wrote:
>> zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com> wrote:
>>
>>> debugfs_remove_recursive has taken IS_ERR_OR_NULL into account. So just
>>> remove the condition check before debugfs_remove_recursive.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: zhong jiang <zhongjiang@...wei.com>
>> It seems you already submitted an identical patch four days earlier:
>>
>> https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/10593061/
>>
>> Why the duplicate? Please ALWAYS add a changelog and increase the version number:
>
> I am sorry for that. Maybe I send the patch earlier, but I remeber I
> should forget to cc to
> netdev@...r.kernel.org and LMLK. So I repost it.  Plese ingore the current patch.

Even then please increase the version number and mention in the change
log why you sent a new version. Otherwise you will make maintainers
confused and wasting time with asking what has changed.

-- 
Kalle Valo