Re: [PATCH v1 01/18] staging: gpib: struct typing for gpib_interface

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Apr 15 2025 - 10:42:01 EST


On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 05:52:51PM +0000, Michael Rubin wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 09, 2025 at 11:26:41AM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 08, 2025 at 10:24:47PM +0000, Michael Rubin wrote:
> > > Using Linux code style for gpib_interface struct in .h to allow drivers to
> > > migrate.
> > >
> > > Adhering to Linux code style.
> > >
> > > In general, a pointer, or a struct that has elements that can reasonably be
> > > directly accessed should never be a typedef.
> > >
> > > Reported by CheckPatch
> > >
> > > WARNING: do not add new typedefs
> > >
> >
> > This commit message is quite long but it's totally unrelated to what the
> > patch does.
> >
> > This commit message should just say "Having the word "_struct" in the
> > name of the struct doesn't add any information so rename struct
> > gpib_interface_struct to struct gpib_interface."
>
> Thank you for the input. New commit marked v2 sent to the list.

I think we need a whole new v2 series, I can't just pick up 1 of the 18
patches as a v2 as our tools will get very confused. Can you just
rebase and resend a v3 for the whole thing?

thanks,

greg k-h