Re: [PATCH 2/2] drivers:staging:gdm724x Fill all alignment should match open parentheses

[Sudip Mukherjee]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 09:59:19AM +0100, Bogicevic Sasa wrote:
> On 10/30/2015, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> >On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 09:15:01PM +0100, Bogicevic Sasa wrote:
> >>This fixes all errors about alignment with open parentheses as well as
> >>one spacing needed around "-" sign since the patch would not be valid if
> >>I left it there
> >
> >1) That becomes two different type of change.
> >2) This has already been done by
> >a4785ef81023 ("staging: gdm724x: properly indent to match open paranthesis")
> >I think you need to refresh your tree against current staging tree.
> >
> >3) your patch subject says 2/2, the next patch says 3/3 and the one
> >after that is saying 4/4. There is something wrong in the way you are
> >generating the patches. This 2/2 or 3/3 should not be here unless you
> >are sending a series of patch.
> >
> >regards
> >sudip
> Ok 1) When I changed the alignment in one of the lines then
> checkpatch.pl starts complaining about the spaces in the same line so
> what do you do in that situation a) just submit anyway or b) fix it
> I guess a according to your email

It depends on how big that change will be. In this case it was ' '
around '-', although if we go by the books, it should not be allowed,
but one space related change can be overlooked. I wont have commented if
points 2 and 3 were not there.

> 2) I'll see what the hell did I do to not notice this
> 3) I just pull, make a change, commit and do git format-patch
> master..somebranch. Do I need to create separate branches for all
> issues?

No, separate branch should not be necessary. I have only one branch for
staging related work. Did you use -n option while using git format-patch?

regards
sudip
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