Re: [PATCH 6/7] cpufreq: intel_pstate: Trivial code cleanup

From: Stratos Karafotis
Date: Tue Jun 10 2014 - 16:15:07 EST


On 10/06/2014 11:17 ÎÎ, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 10:26:44 AM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
>> On 06/10/2014 08:31 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>>> On Tuesday, June 10, 2014 08:12:48 AM Dirk Brandewie wrote:
>>>> On 06/09/2014 02:01 PM, Stratos Karafotis wrote:
>>>>> Remove unnecessary blank lines.
>>>>> Remove unnecessary parentheses.
>>>>> Remove unnecessary braces.
>>>>> Put the code in one line where possible.
>>>>> Add blank lines after variable declarations.
>>>>> Alignment to open parenthesis.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> I don't have an issue with this patch in general but I would rather
>>>> the cleanup be done when there is a functional change in the given
>>>> hunk of code otherwise you are setting up a fence for stable/backporters
>>>> of functional changes in the future.
>>>
>>> I actually prefer separate cleanups so as to avoid doing multiple things
>>> in one patch.
>>>
>>> Rafael
>>>
>> I don't have strong feelings either way I was just trying to be kind
>> to the maintainers of distro kernels.
>
> And mixing fixes with cleanups in one patch doesn't do any good to them.
>
> Trust me, I used to work for a distro. :-)
>

So, should I proceed and split the patch or drop it? :)

Stratos


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