Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fixed to codestyle

From: Eric Sandeen
Date: Mon Dec 12 2016 - 16:18:00 EST




On 12/12/16 2:50 PM, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 14:41 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
>> On 12/12/16 2:34 PM, Ozgur Karatas wrote:
> []
>>> Can you tell me the true code style? should use to (* uuid)?
>>> I'm learn to new and I'm newbies :)
>>
>> Well, rule #1 for newbies is "code style patches aren't
>> very useful, and usually are not welcomed by the project."
>
> I'd amend that to
>
> "newbies should only use checkpatch on files in drivers/staging/"
>
> and are generally welcome to do exactly that in order to learn
> how to submit patches appropriately before finding something
> actually useful to change in other areas of the kernel.

Ok, that's a fair amendment. :)

-Eric