Re: [PATCH 00/49] DRM driver for Hikey 970

From: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Date: Thu Aug 20 2020 - 03:21:24 EST


Hi Sam,

Em Wed, 19 Aug 2020 22:48:00 +0200
Sam Ravnborg <sam@xxxxxxxxxxxx> escreveu:

> Hi Mauro.
>
> It seems my review comments failed to reach dri-devel - likely due to
> the size of the mail.

Probably. It reached here properly.

> Link:
> https://lore.kernel.org/linux-devicetree/20200819173558.GA3733@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> I my review feedback I refer to checkpatch a few time.
> For drivers/gpu/ we have some nice tooling support.
> One thing our tooling does for us is running checkpatch every time
> we apply a patch.
>
> checkpatch -q --emacs --strict --show-types
>
> So we expect patches to be more or less checkpatch --strict clean.
>
> "more or less" - as common sense also plays a role.
> And sometimes checkpatch is just wrong.
>
> Just in case you wondered why checkpatch --strict was requested.

We also use checkpatch --strict for media as a reference,
ignoring the things that would make things worse during review :-)

I'll run checkpatch here and ensure that the coding style
issues will be properly addressed.

Thanks,
Mauro