Re: [Outreachy kernel] Re: [PATCH v2 3/3] staging: rtl8192u: Prefer using the BIT macro

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 12:10:21PM -0800, SIMRAN SINGHAL wrote:
> 
> 
> On Friday, February 24, 2017 at 10:46:21 PM UTC+5:30, gregkh wrote:
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>     On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 11:20:59PM +0530, simran singhal wrote:
>     > Replaces left shift operation (1 << d) by BIT(x) macro.
>     >
>     > Fix the checkpatch.pl issue:
>     > CHECK: Prefer using the BIT macro replacing
>     >
>     > Signed-off-by: simran singhal <singhal...@xxxxxxxxx>
>     > ---
>     >  
>     >  V2:
>     >    -modified patch message.
>     >
>     >  drivers/staging/rtl8192u/ieee80211/ieee80211.h | 140
>     ++++++++++++-------------
>     >  1 file changed, 70 insertions(+), 70 deletions(-)
> 
>     The last chunk of this patch did not apply, please fix up and resend.
> 
>     thanks,
> 
>     greg k-h
> 
> 
>   Can you please elaborate what's the problem with the last chunk of this patch
> and 
>   to be more precise what do you mean by "last chunk of this patch". I am not
> getting 
>   what's the problem with this patch.

I don't know what the problem was, just that it did not apply properly.
Take your patch and try to apply it now to my tree and see what
happens...

thanks,

greg k-h