Re: [PATCH 05/10] Staging: rtl8192e: kconfig: Remove empty help text

From: Dan Carpenter
Date: Wed Jan 31 2018 - 03:46:42 EST


On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 09:41:24AM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 9:06 AM, Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 30, 2018 at 08:05:27PM +0100, Ulf Magnusson wrote:
> >> In preparation for adding a warning ("kconfig: Warn if help text is
> >> blank"): https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/1/30/516
> >>
> >
> > Please don't start the boddy of the email in the middle of a sentence.
> >
> > It looks like this:
> >
> > https://marc.info/?l=linux-driver-devel&m=151733925532413&w=2
> >
> > Notice how the subject is up above the From, Date, and Message-id email
> > headers? It's totally disconnected from the body of the email.
> >
> > regards,
> > dan carpenter
>
> The 'this is in...' was implied. I'll try to be less of a sloppy bastard.
>

I do feel that patch descriptions should say what the patch does as well
as why. Right now the subject says what but I normally read either the
body or the subject but not both.

regards,
dan carpenter