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Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2024 11:19:56 -0800
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] staging: rts5208: Add more details to Kconfig help
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To: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>, Jacob Lott <jklott.git@gmail.com>
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From: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
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On 1/18/24 10:59, Greg KH wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 18, 2024 at 12:59:48PM -0500, Jacob Lott wrote:
>> The current help text is short and triggers a
>> warning from checkpatch.pl. This patch adds more
>> details to the help text which should provide better
>> information for whether or not to enable the driver.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jacob Lott <jklott.git@gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig | 10 +++++++---
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig b/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig
>> index b864023d3ccb..c4664a26ba3b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/rts5208/Kconfig
>> @@ -3,7 +3,11 @@ config RTS5208
>>  	tristate "Realtek PCI-E Card Reader RTS5208/5288 support"
>>  	depends on PCI && SCSI
>>  	help
>> -	  Say Y here to include driver code to support the Realtek
>> -	  PCI-E card reader rts5208/rts5288.
>> +	  Choose Y here to enable support for the Realtek PCI-E card reader
>> +	  RTS5208/5288. This driver facilitates communication between the Linux
>> +	  kernel and the Realtek PCI-E card reader.
>>  
>> -	  If this driver is compiled as a module, it will be named rts5208.
>> +	  If you opt to compile this driver as a module, it will be named rts5208.
>> +	  Selecting N will exclude this driver from the kernel build. Choose option
>> +	  Y if your system includes the Realtek PCI-E card reader rts5208/rts5288.
>> +	  When in doubt, it is generally safe to select N.
>> -- 
>> 2.34.1
>>
>> v3 fixes the tab spacing for line 6 in Kconfig
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> This is the friendly patch-bot of Greg Kroah-Hartman.  You have sent him
> a patch that has triggered this response.  He used to manually respond
> to these common problems, but in order to save his sanity (he kept
> writing the same thing over and over, yet to different people), I was
> created.  Hopefully you will not take offence and will fix the problem
> in your patch and resubmit it so that it can be accepted into the Linux
> kernel tree.
> 
> You are receiving this message because of the following common error(s)
> as indicated below:
> 
> - This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
>   did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.

Jacob,
Immediately below the "---" line, not at the end of the patch.


>   Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the
>   kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what
>   needs to be done here to properly describe this.
> 
> If you wish to discuss this problem further, or you have questions about
> how to resolve this issue, please feel free to respond to this email and
> Greg will reply once he has dug out from the pending patches received
> from other developers.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h's patch email bot
> 

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#Randy