[Outreachy kernel] [PATCH 01/11] Staging: rtl8188eu: hal_com: Add space around operators

Shreeya Patel shreeya.patel23498 at gmail.com
Sun Mar 22 23:18:08 UTC 2020


On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 08:09 -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sun, 2020-03-22 at 12:27 +0100, Greg KH wrote:

Hi Greg and Joe,

> > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020 at 03:51:13AM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote:
> > > Add space around operators for improving the code
> > > readability.
> > > Reported by checkpatch.pl
> > > 
> > > git diff -w shows no difference.
> > > diff of the .o files before and after the changes shows no
> > > difference.
> > 
> > There is no need to have these two lines on every changelog comment
> > in
> > this series :(
> 
Yes I get that.

> In my opinion, there's no need for a series here.
> 
> Whitespace only changes _should_ be done all at once.
> 
> Whitespace changes _could_ have changed string constants.
> 
> So noting that the patch in only whitespace and that
> there isn't a difference in object files is useful as
> it shows any change has been compiled and tested.
> 

Joe, I feel the same thing, there is no need of a patch series
for it but I was given a suggestion that it becomes difficult for the
reviewers to review the patch so it is good to send a patchset instead.

But as you said, we are testing that there is no change in the object
file so we can go ahead with a single patch for all the whitespace
changes.

If you feel this is right then can I go ahead and send a single patch
for it? ( need your or Greg's confirmation before I do it )

Thanks

> 



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