Re: [PATCH v4] staging: erofs: use explicit unsigned int type

From: Gao Xiang
Date: Thu Sep 13 2018 - 12:47:01 EST


Hi Thomas,

ping...

On 2018/9/12 14:21, Gao Xiang wrote:
> Hi Thomas,
>
> On 2018/9/11 3:41, Thomas WeiÃschuh wrote:
>> Hi Chao,
>>
>> On Mon, 2018-09-10T23:59+0800, Chao Yu wrote:
>>> [...]
>>>>> I was not aware of this tree and worked off of staging / next.
>>>>> A patch is attached to this message that adds the tree to the MAINTAINERS file.
>>>> Hi Chao,
>>>>
>>>> I think this tree has some PREVIEW patches which preview in linux-erofs mailing list only and
>>>> doesn't send to staging mailing list and LKML,
>>>>
>>>> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/chao/linux.git/log/?h=erofs
>>>>
>>>> so erofs tree is actually Greg's staging tree.
>>> Thomas,
>>>
>>> I confirmed that erofs git repository for linux upstream is Greg's staging tree.
>>>
>>> Let me explain, in order to avoid sending buggy or preview patch, Xiang and me
>>> plan to review patches in erofs mailing list first, and then cache reviewed
>>> patches in my git tree before sending them to Greg and staging mailing list.
>>>
>>> Based on that, I'm trying to serialize all erofs patches, expecting that can
>>> help those patches sent to staging mailing list can be merged by Greg with
>>> lesser conflict. But I made a mistake that my erofs branch has merged some
>>> pending patches, result in failing to merge yours, that mislead me to ask you to
>>> rebase the code, sorry about that.
>> Thank you for clearing this up! And I am sorry for causing you all this work
>> for what is essentially a very small style cleanup.
>>
>>> Now I can confirm that your v2 patch can apply on Greg's staging-next, so fixing
>>> warning reported by checkpatch.pl on your v2 patch is enough. :)
>> The patch follows.
>>
>> Thomas
>
> Could you please resend your patch seperately? Because it will be easier for Greg to merge.
>
>>
>>
>> Changes since v1:
>>
>> * Removed changes that conflicted with
>> [PATCH 1/6] staging: erofs: formatting fix in unzip_vle_lz4.c
>> * Added patch description
>>
>> Changes since v2:
>>
>> * Fixed conflicts with other patchsets
>> * Don't introduce new style issues
>>
>> Changes since v3:
>>
>> * Fixed conflicts with other patchsets
>>
>> Note: This patchset should be applied with the "git am --scissors", to
>> remove the historic information and this note.
>>
>> -- >8 --
>
> I personally think that is not the correct kernel patch style.
>
> Just as Greg's said,
>> These changes belong below the --- line, not above it.
>
> LINK: https://lists.ozlabs.org/pipermail/linux-erofs/2018-August/000367.html
>
> For reference, it will help the patch quickly get merged. ;)
>
> and you could add,
> Reviewed-by: Gao Xiang <gaoxiang25@xxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks,
> Gao Xiang
>

and HUAWEI email server cannot send my all emails to your mailbox successfully.
Since you change a lot of files,I need to rebase my rest preview patches one by one right now.

Could you please resend a acceptable independent final patch for Greg? :)

Thanks,
Gao Xiang

>>
>> Fix coding style issue "Prefer 'unsigned int' to bare use of 'unsigned'"
>> detected by checkpatch.pl.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Thomas WeiÃschuh <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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