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Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Fixed to codestyle
From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>,
        Ozgur Karatas <okaratas@member.fsf.org>,
        "david@fromorbit.com" <david@fromorbit.com>
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        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 12:50:38 -0800
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On Mon, 2016-12-12 at 14:41 -0600, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 12/12/16 2:34 PM, Ozgur Karatas wrote:
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> > Can you tell me the true code style? should use to (* uuid)? 
> > I'm learn to new and I'm newbies :)
> 
> Well, rule #1 for newbies is "code style patches aren't
> very useful, and usually are not welcomed by the project."

I'd amend that to

"newbies should only use checkpatch on files in drivers/staging/"

and are generally welcome to do exactly that in order to learn
how to submit patches appropriately before finding something
actually useful to change in other areas of the kernel.