Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH v9 2/7] virtio-pmem: Add virtio pmem driver

From: Dan Williams
Date: Wed May 15 2019 - 16:48:16 EST


On Tue, May 14, 2019 at 8:25 AM Pankaj Gupta <pagupta@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > On 5/14/19 7:54 AM, Pankaj Gupta wrote:
> > > diff --git a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> > > index 35897649c24f..94bad084ebab 100644
> > > --- a/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> > > +++ b/drivers/virtio/Kconfig
> > > @@ -42,6 +42,17 @@ config VIRTIO_PCI_LEGACY
> > >
> > > If unsure, say Y.
> > >
> > > +config VIRTIO_PMEM
> > > + tristate "Support for virtio pmem driver"
> > > + depends on VIRTIO
> > > + depends on LIBNVDIMM
> > > + help
> > > + This driver provides access to virtio-pmem devices, storage devices
> > > + that are mapped into the physical address space - similar to NVDIMMs
> > > + - with a virtio-based flushing interface.
> > > +
> > > + If unsure, say M.
> >
> > <beep>
> > from Documentation/process/coding-style.rst:
> > "Lines under a ``config`` definition
> > are indented with one tab, while help text is indented an additional two
> > spaces."
>
> ah... I changed help text and 'checkpatch' did not say anything :( .
>
> Will wait for Dan, If its possible to add two spaces to help text while applying
> the series.

I'm inclined to handle this with a fixup appended to the end of the
series just so the patchwork-bot does not get confused by the content
changing from what was sent to the list.