[PATCH] Fixed coding style problem

Greg KH gregkh at linuxfoundation.org
Fri Jun 20 15:20:19 UTC 2014


On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 10:50:09AM -0400, rbasukala wrote:
> ---
>  drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c |    1 +
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
> index e320d6b..3ad48a0 100644
> --- a/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
> +++ b/drivers/staging/netlogic/xlr_net.c
> @@ -1105,6 +1105,7 @@ err_gmac:
>  static int xlr_net_remove(struct platform_device *pdev)
>  {
>  	struct xlr_net_priv *priv = platform_get_drvdata(pdev);
> +
>  	unregister_netdev(priv->ndev);
>  	mdiobus_unregister(priv->mii_bus);
>  	mdiobus_free(priv->mii_bus);


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:

- Your patch does not have a Signed-off-by: line.  Please read the
  kernel file, Documentation/SubmittingPatches and resend it after
  adding that line.  Note, the line needs to be in the body of the
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- You did not specify a description of why the patch is needed, or
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  section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the kernel file,
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches for what is needed in order to
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- You did not write a descriptive Subject: for the patch, allowing Greg,
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  the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the kernel file,
  Documentation/SubmittingPatches for what a proper Subject: line should
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