Re: [PATCH 1/7] staging: r8188eu: remove haldata's EEPROMVID / PID

From: Martin Kaiser
Date: Sat Nov 13 2021 - 11:21:56 EST


Thus wrote Fabio M. De Francesco (fmdefrancesco@xxxxxxxxx):

> On Thursday, November 11, 2021 10:26:38 PM CET Martin Kaiser wrote:

> > They are used only in a (disabled) debug print.

> > In practice, lsusb can be used to read the actual vid and pid.

> Hi Martin,

> You seem to have overlooked the usual rules for writing conformant commit
> messages :)

> Please say "what" you did along with "why" you made the changes.

> Here, and in two or three other patches of your series, you forgot to
> describe "what" you did. You actually wrote it in the "Subject" lines but, as
> you know for sure, commit messages must be self-contained entities.

Hi Fabio,

thanks for the reminder. The commit message should indeed make sense
without the title.

> Also, it would be nice to have a cover letter and have all seven patches in
> one thread in response to the above, even if it (AFAIK) is not strictly
> required.

There wasn't a common topic in this series so I decided to add no cover
letter.

Best regards,
Martin