Re: [PATCH] staging: octeon: Fix warnings due to introduction of new typedefs

From: Greg KH
Date: Sat Oct 21 2023 - 05:05:52 EST


On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:59:21AM +0200, Jonathan Bergh wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 21, 2023 at 10:32:29AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> > This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
> > did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.
>
> This patch is a *new* patch which replaced a previous *series* of patches
> so it was considered a *new* standalone patch, rather than a new version
> of the original series.

Not really, it's a version 2 as you are doing the same thing.

> > - Your patch did many different things all at once, making it difficult
> > to review. All Linux kernel patches need to only do one thing at a
> > time. If you need to do multiple things (such as clean up all coding
> > style issues in a file/driver), do it in a sequence of patches, each
> > one doing only one thing.
>
> This patch only addresses removal of typedefs from the declarations
> and fixes up the implmentations that relied on those typedefs. The previous
> advice was to not make breaking changes across patches, so this patch
> represents code changes which are as atomic as possible in a single patch
> without breaking the build. It does not mix formatting / other changes
> with the code change.

Please fix up one typedef at a time.

thanks,

greg k-h