Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752795AbdI3LN6 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:13:58 -0400 Received: from mail-pg0-f65.google.com ([74.125.83.65]:35851 "EHLO mail-pg0-f65.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751351AbdI3LN5 (ORCPT ); Sat, 30 Sep 2017 07:13:57 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AOwi7QDORVxjtlA1yuSulEN1Ztxj4Yq6qeVq0R7ZrY2y4U3mFjWldBI6XKq0Jl2IZFLit1gn1aqS2g== Message-ID: <1506770032.2078.1.camel@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Staging: rtl8723bs: Remove unnecessary comments. From: Shreeya Patel To: "Tobin C. Harding" Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, outreachy-kernel@googlegroups.com Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2017 16:43:52 +0530 In-Reply-To: <20170930110657.GA25277@eros> References: <1506758434-3193-1-git-send-email-shreeya.patel23498@gmail.com> <20170930110657.GA25277@eros> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.18.5.2-0ubuntu3.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1055 Lines: 33 On Sat, 2017-09-30 at 21:06 +1000, Tobin C. Harding wrote: > Hi Shreeya, > > We don't usually add a period to the subject line for kernel patches. > (reason: we only have about > 52 characters for the commit brief description so best not to waste > any). > > On Sat, Sep 30, 2017 at 01:30:34PM +0530, Shreeya Patel wrote: > > > > This patch removes unnecessary comments which are there > > to explain why call to memset is in comments. Both of the > > comments are not needed as they are not very useful. > You may like to read Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst > (specifically > section 2) for tips on writing your git log. > >         Describe your changes in imperative mood, e.g. "make xyzzy do > frotz" >         instead of "[This patch] makes xyzzy do frotz" or "[I] > changed xyzzy >         to do frotz", as if you are giving orders to the codebase to > change >         its behaviour. > > Good luck, > Tobin. Hello, Thanks for correcting me :) I'll do the necessary changes and will send as v3.