Re: [PATCH] iio: core: remove extra semi-colon from devm_iio_device_register() macro

From: Lars Engebretsen
Date: Wed Apr 15 2020 - 06:11:39 EST


Thanks Alexandru! I'm sending the second version of the patch now.

Den ons 15 apr. 2020 kl 07:43 skrev Ardelean, Alexandru
<alexandru.Ardelean@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>
> On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 20:42 +0200, Lars Engebretsen wrote:
>
> A description of the change is required to describe the change.
> I think I mentioned this in my email, but I was lazy to provide an example.
>
> Description of changes are required even for the smallest of changes; I think
> it's mostly so that people always keep their brains trained to describe all
> changes.
>
> So here, you could say something like:
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
> This change removes the semi-colon from the devm_iio_device_register() macro
> which seems to have been added by accident via commit 63b19547cc3d9 ("iio: Use
> macro magic to avoid manual assign of driver_module").
> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Make sure commit comments stay within a 75 column width limit.
> And make sure you add a version tag for the next patch/re-send.
> i.e. do git format-patch -v2 [or v3 for 3rd version,]
>
> And it's a good idea to add a changelog after the line with '---' in the patch
> file. Text after that line gets ignored for the commit description.
> Something like:
>
> Changelog v1 -> v2:
> * added commit change description
>
>
> > Signed-off-by: Lars Engebretsen <lars@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > include/linux/iio/iio.h | 2 +-
> > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/iio/iio.h b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
> > index d63884a54939..76ba7c9fd3e0 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/iio/iio.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/iio/iio.h
> > @@ -597,7 +597,7 @@ void iio_device_unregister(struct iio_dev *indio_dev);
> > * 0 on success, negative error number on failure.
> > */
> > #define devm_iio_device_register(dev, indio_dev) \
> > - __devm_iio_device_register((dev), (indio_dev), THIS_MODULE);
> > + __devm_iio_device_register((dev), (indio_dev), THIS_MODULE)
> > int __devm_iio_device_register(struct device *dev, struct iio_dev *indio_dev,
> > struct module *this_mod);
> > int iio_push_event(struct iio_dev *indio_dev, u64 ev_code, s64 timestamp);