Re: [PATCH 08/12] staging: ks7010: remove unnecessary else statement

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On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 02:18:46PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 14, 2017 at 09:54:22PM +1100, Tobin C. Harding wrote:
> > On the topic of "one thing per patch", so we are aiming to do one
> > thing per patch so it is easier to locate bugs if they get introduced
> > but also, and more importantly, to make review easier. So from this
> > patch am I right in thinking if the one thing is going to expose an
> > error that the reviewer is going to comment on then best to do it at
> > the same time so the diff is more clean?
> 
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  If you're writing a cleanup
> patch and you spot a bug, the proper thing to do is to stop the cleanup,
> fix the bug and send it as a separate patch, then restart the cleanup.
> But this is staging and the code is so buggy so we don't care.  Just
> finish the cleanup and then fix the bug.  Don't ever mix bug fixes with
> cleanups.

Got  it, thanks.

Tobin.
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