On Wed, 2020-03-25 at 16:48 +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> Some people still ask for some commit description, not just a sign-off line. I do think that's unnecessary though when, as here, the patch subject is descriptive and complete. > diff --git a/block/genhd.c b/block/genhd.c [] > @@ -139,7 +139,8 @@ void part_dec_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, int rw) > part_stat_local_dec(&part_to_disk(part)->part0, in_flight[rw]); > } > > -unsigned int part_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part) > +static unsigned int part_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, > + struct hd_struct *part) genhd.c aligns multi-line arguments to open parenthesis, it'd be nicer to maintain that style. > { > int cpu; > unsigned int inflight; > @@ -159,8 +160,8 @@ unsigned int part_in_flight(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part) > return inflight; > } > > -void part_in_flight_rw(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, > - unsigned int inflight[2]) > +static void part_in_flight_rw(struct request_queue *q, struct hd_struct *part, > + unsigned int inflight[2]) etc.