Re: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] USB: serial: cp210x: Got rid of magic numbers in CRTSCTS flag code.

From: Johan Hovold
Date: Wed May 04 2016 - 08:55:18 EST


On Wed, May 04, 2016 at 12:46:17PM +0000, Konstantin Shkolnyy wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- From: linux-usb-owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:linux-usb- owner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Johan Hovold
> > Sent: Wednesday, May 04, 2016 02:29 To: Konstantin Shkolnyy Cc:
> > johan@xxxxxxxxxx; linux-usb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; linux-
> > kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [EXT] Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] USB:
> > serial: cp210x: Got rid of magic numbers in CRTSCTS flag code.
> >
> > On Tue, May 03, 2016 at 07:52:23PM -0500, Konstantin Shkolnyy wrote:
> > > Replaced magic numbers used in the CRTSCTS flag code with symbolic
> > names
> > > from the chip specification.
> > >
> > > Signed-off-by: Konstantin Shkolnyy <konstantin.shkolnyy@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > This patch does not even compile. Please be more careful when
> > resubmitting. There are at least two compilation errors below.
>
> Sorry about that.
>
> It's a couple of dumb syntax errors that don't really matter for
> change review purpose. Otherwise, do the patches look good?

It's worse than that as when the code doesn't even compile it's obvious
that it has never been tested. That is just not acceptable, and the code
does not deserve review.

Johan