2022-02-08 15:43:38

by Fabio M. De Francesco

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: r8188eu: core: 'associcated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?

On marted? 8 febbraio 2022 00:42:10 CET Leonardo Araujo wrote:
> This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning:
>
> CHECK: 'associcated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?
>
> Signed-off-by: Leonardo Araujo <[email protected]>
> ---
> drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
"Staging: r8188eu: core: 'associated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?"
it's not the way patch subjects are created for inclusion in Linux.

Please follow what is clearly described in the "Philosophy of Linux kernel
patches" document at https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy...

"In patch descriptions and in the subject, it is common and preferable to use
present-tense, imperative language. Write as if you are telling git what to do
with your patch.".

It's not my job to accept or reject patches for this subsystem and I don't want
to tell you what to write but, if I were you, I'd send a v2 with a subject like
"Fix misspelled word in comments" (or something else similar to this subject).

Furthermore, please take note that the name of this subsystem is "staging" (it
is not "Staging").

Decide by yourself whether or not the other two patches that you submitted this
morning have to be sent anew as v2 with due changes in the subjects.

Regards,

Fabio M. De Francesco







2022-02-09 09:58:52

by Greg Kroah-Hartman

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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Staging: r8188eu: core: 'associcated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?

On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 09:09:10AM +0100, Fabio M. De Francesco wrote:
> On marted? 8 febbraio 2022 00:42:10 CET Leonardo Araujo wrote:
> > This patch fixes the following checkpatch.pl warning:
> >
> > CHECK: 'associcated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Leonardo Araujo <[email protected]>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_ap.c | 6 +++---
> > 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
> >
> "Staging: r8188eu: core: 'associated' may be misspelled - perhaps 'associated'?"
> it's not the way patch subjects are created for inclusion in Linux.

I do not see anything wrong with this. What do you think is not
acceptable?

> Please follow what is clearly described in the "Philosophy of Linux kernel
> patches" document at https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy...

The in-kernel documentation describes this well also.

> "In patch descriptions and in the subject, it is common and preferable to use
> present-tense, imperative language. Write as if you are telling git what to do
> with your patch.".
>
> It's not my job to accept or reject patches for this subsystem and I don't want
> to tell you what to write but, if I were you, I'd send a v2 with a subject like
> "Fix misspelled word in comments" (or something else similar to this subject).
>
> Furthermore, please take note that the name of this subsystem is "staging" (it
> is not "Staging").

Either is fine, I will not reject a change for an upper-case letter like
this.

> Decide by yourself whether or not the other two patches that you submitted this
> morning have to be sent anew as v2 with due changes in the subjects.

I do not see a problem with this change at all, nothing needs to be
resubmitted.

greg k-h