Re: [PATCH] Staging: kernel: user: fixed some coding style issues

From: Joe Perches
Date: Sat Apr 11 2020 - 15:56:16 EST


On Sat, 2020-04-11 at 21:42 +0200, carlosteniswarrior@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: porfavorde <carlosteniswarrior@xxxxxxxxx>

Hello.

> Fixed a coding style issue with a for loop and a trailing whitespace in
> the comments
>
> Signed-off-by: Carlos Guerrero Álvarez <carlosteniswarrior@xxxxxxxxx>

A From: line is generally used when sending a patch authored
by someone else.

It would be better here not to use a From: line at all as you
are both the author and sender.

Also please make your first patch somewhere in drivers/staging
and not any other directory until you are familiar with the
kernel styles and tools. kernel/ isn't really a good place
for a first patch to be accepted, though I don't see anything
wrong with this patch other than the From: line.

But whitespace only changes outside of drivers/staging and a
few other directories are generally not accepted unless sent
as a patch series along with some other change such as
refactoring or a logical change for a defect.

cheers, Joe
---
> kernel/user.c | 4 ++--
> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/user.c b/kernel/user.c
> index 5235d7f49982..4228ec04678d 100644
> --- a/kernel/user.c
> +++ b/kernel/user.c
> @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
> *
> * We have a per-user structure to keep track of how many
> * processes, files etc the user has claimed, in order to be
> - * able to have per-user limits for system resources.
> + * able to have per-user limits for system resources.
> */
>
> #include <linux/init.h>
> @@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ static int __init uid_cache_init(void)
> uid_cachep = kmem_cache_create("uid_cache", sizeof(struct user_struct),
> 0, SLAB_HWCACHE_ALIGN|SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
>
> - for(n = 0; n < UIDHASH_SZ; ++n)
> + for (n = 0; n < UIDHASH_SZ; ++n)
> INIT_HLIST_HEAD(uidhash_table + n);
>
> /* Insert the root user immediately (init already runs as root) */