Re: [Nbd] Fwd: [PATCH v4 02/18] nbd: fix checkpatch trailing space warning.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Fri Jun 03 2016 - 12:51:47 EST


On Wed 2016-05-11 07:46:25, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 05/11/2016 03:38 AM, Pranay Srivastava wrote:
>
> >
> > The series contained some checkpatch changes so I had included you as well.
> >
> >> know why you are sending them to me), but I know I do not accept patches
> >> without any changelog text at all in them, as that's just lazy.
> >
> > That should be per patch or can appear in a cover letter for the patches?
>
> Per patch. However, if it were me, I would not have split into quite so
> many patches. The mantra is one patch per one fix, but I think it is
> reasonable to state that "silence all checkpatch warnings" counts as one
> fix, rather than 16 separate fixes. If you DO consolidate the
> checkpatch changes into a single patch, then the commit message body
> should call out a bulleted list of all the changes you are making, as
> well as a justification why it is worth churning the entire file rather
> than just making smaller checkpatch fixes in just the areas that your
> other patches touch.

Unfortunately, Greg told him to split it like this. I also liked the
single patch more.

I wonder why mpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx was not cc-ed on this series? Anyway,
the cleanups are so trivial they should just be applied.... No need to
spend huge time arguing.

Best regards,
Pavel

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