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Date:   Sun, 15 Oct 2023 14:50:44 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
To:     Soumya Negi <soumya.negi97@gmail.com>
Cc:     Jonathan Kim <jonathankim@gctsemi.com>,
        Dean ahn <deanahn@gctsemi.com>, outreachy@lists.linux.dev,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] tty: gdm724x: Add blank line after declaration
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On Sat, Oct 14, 2023 at 11:07:16PM -0700, Soumya Negi wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 15, 2023 at 07:37:30AM +0200, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote:
> > On Fri, Oct 13, 2023 at 01:26:35AM -0700, Soumya Negi wrote:
> > > Fix WARNING: Missing a blank line after declarations
> > > Issue found by checkpatch.pl
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Soumya Negi <soumya.negi97@gmail.com>
> > > ---
> > >  drivers/staging/gdm724x/gdm_tty.c | 1 +
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
> > 
> > Why do you have "tty:" as the prefix for a staging driver?  Shouldn't it
> > be "staging: gdm724x: ...."?
> 
> Hi Greg,
> 
> Thats what I thought too. But when I looked at the git history for
> gdm_tty.c the last few commits had "tty:". So I went with that.

That is because those commits were tty-wide, and they changed things in
multiple drivers all at once, not just for the one file.

> Should I change it to "staging:"?

Please do.

thanks,

greg k-h