Re: [PATCH] Removed extra spaces, and error from checkpatch.pl

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On Sun, Sep 27, 2015 at 01:59:17PM +0530, Pinkesh Jain wrote:
> There were many warnings and error given by checkpatch.pl and most of them were
> almost of the same type so i believed a single patch is enough to do the
> cleanup.
> 
> 1. Remove errors of the struct declaration (foo*bar to foo *bar)
> 2. Removed warnings of 'spaces before comma'.
> 3. Added space after enum declaration and before opening of paranthesis.
> 4. removed spaces between function calls (func () to func() )
> 5. Still there are a lot of warnings related to only line lengths but removing
> then would not make sense and would leave the code unreadable.
> 
> There were one or two more of such kind of very small code refactoring that i
> did. Since they were not that important, also i 'Did Not Alter' any other part
> of functioning code so i made the changes in a single patch.
> 
> I am new here and this is my first patch so please give me  enough suggestions
> and reviews for what i do, so that i can get familiar with the community
> guidelines.
> 
> If i do anything wrong then please correct me.
> 
> Questions:
> 1.) Do i need to mention all this changes that i wrote about in the commit as
> they are very descriptive? I tried to be brief in the commit message.

Be descriptive.

> 2.) Do i need to split the changes in separate commits, as one of the members
> pointed out.

yes.
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