Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] staging: unisys: visorinput fixes and enhancements

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 10:28:17PM +0000, Sell, Timothy C wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Greg KH [mailto:gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 17, 2015 5:18 PM
> > To: Romer, Benjamin M
> > Cc: *S-Par-Maintainer; driverdev-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/7] staging: unisys: visorinput fixes and
> > enhancements
> > 
> > On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 03:22:10PM -0500, Benjamin Romer wrote:
> > > This patch series fixes visorinput to remove the dependency on FB and
> > > add dependency to INPUT, cleans up some formatting issues found with
> > > checkpatch.pl, and adds the capability to change screen resolutions
> > > without breaking mouse functionality.
> > >
> > > This is a resubmission of the series.
> > 
> > You changed nothing based on the previous discussion, not exactly a good
> > way to get a patch series accepted :(
> 
> We relocated a devdata_put() in "[PATCH v2 1/7]" at the recommendation
> of Dan Carpenter.  I guess I was mistaken that I had convinced you in our
> previous email discussion about the need for the lock.  :-(

I have the short-term memory of a squirrel, if someone can't see in the
patch itself why it is working correctly, you haven't convinced anyone
:)

Please be descriptive in the changelog about _why_ you are doing
something, so that everyone understands, not the least being yourself in
8 years when you get a bug report asking why you did something in a
specific commit (a real example of what happened to me earlier today.)

thanks,

greg k-h
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