Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: rtl8723bs: rtw_mlme: Remove unnecessary conditions

From: Lakshmi Ramasubramanian
Date: Thu Mar 12 2020 - 12:31:05 EST


On 3/12/2020 3:49 AM, Julia Lawall wrote:

Thanks for your input Julia and Stefano.

That's my general preference as well, but I can't find any point in the
"Describe your changes" section of submitting-patches.rst actually
defining the order. I wouldn't imply that from the sequence the steps
are presented in.

In case it's possible to say everything with a single statement as
Shreeya did here, though, I guess that becomes rather a linguistic
factor, and I personally prefer the concise version here.

https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchPhilosophy suggests:

In patch descriptions and in the subject, it is common and preferable to
use present-tense, imperative language. Write as if you are telling git
what to do with your patch.

Use of imperative language is the approach I was thinking as well.

thanks,
-lakshmi