Re: [PATCH v3 00/30] staging: rtl8723bs: remove RT_TRACE logs in core/*

[Fabio Aiuto]

On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 01:02:04PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 19:28 +0200, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 09:17:37AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 17:21 +0200, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > > > On Sat, Apr 03, 2021 at 08:02:25AM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > > > > On Sat, 2021-04-03 at 11:13 +0200, Fabio Aiuto wrote:
> > > > > > This patchset removes all RT_TRACE usages in core/ files.
> > > > > 
> > > > > and hal and include and os_dep
> > > > 
> > > > Hi, 
> > > > 
> > > > I was just about to send the second patchset relative to hal/ files.
> > > > The whole has been split up in directories in order to reduce the
> > > > number of patch per patchset
> > > 
> > > > It's a good idea, but the patches relative to RT_TRACE removal
> > > > could be huge
> > > 
> > > That's really not a significant issue.
> > > Simplicity in review is also important.
> > > Mechanization of patch creation can reduce review efforts.
> > 
> > Maybe I wrongly associated simplicity with patch dimensions, but maybe
> > for patches this simple have expert reviewers some tool for
> > automatic review?
> 
> Coccinelle is a relatively trusted tool and using it as a scripting
> mechanism where the script is shown as part of the commit message
> gives confidence that the change it produces can be applied without
> significant doubt.
> 
> To improve confidence that any change that does not have an output
> object code delta, comparing the object code produced before and
> after the change is useful.  Showing that the code has been both
> compiled and compared in the commit message also improves confidence
> that the change is useful and can be applied.
> 
> 

which tool provides an object code delta output suitable for a commit message?

I dare a proposal apologizing in advance if this question should sound off topic,
if it is please tell me how to ask it,

is anyone of you all available being my mentor?

I realized that what you told me in last weeks helps me a lot, and maybe
a mentor can address me working towards more useful code bases.

I choosed rtl8723bs quite by random, just to make experience in cleaning up code,
and get more confident with required dev tools, but if there is some other task 
with higher priority that I could carry on, I will be glad to
follow directives of a mentor. I really would like to become an expert kernel developer,
and the way community works gets me more and more involved.

Thank you again to all people helping me,

fabio