Re: [PATCH] [trivial] dt-bindings: i2c: i2c-mux: Spelling s/required is/required if/

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Hi Peter,

On Mon, Sep 25, 2017 at 5:13 PM, Peter Rosin <peda@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2017-09-21 14:52, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
>> Signed-off-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Yes, this is trivial, both the patch and my complaint, but can you please
> add a "body of explanation" as suggested by submitting-patches in its topic
> "The canonical patch format"?

A patch should provide the answer to 3 questions: what?, why?, and how?,
and IMHO all of these have been answered.
What more can I say, besides duplicating the one-line summary?

> Maintainers accepting empty patch descriptions are publicly shamed, and
> I do not wish to be in that boat, sorry...

Are they? AFAIK only if they apply patches that need more explanation.

>> ---
>>  Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-mux.txt | 4 ++--
>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-mux.txt b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-mux.txt
>> index 212e6779dc5c0caf..b38f58a1c8784184 100644
>> --- a/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-mux.txt
>> +++ b/Documentation/devicetree/bindings/i2c/i2c-mux.txt
>> @@ -6,10 +6,10 @@ multiplexer/switch will have one child node for each child bus.
>>
>>  Optional properties:
>>  - #address-cells = <1>;
>> -   This property is required is the i2c-mux child node does not exist.
>> +   This property is required if the i2c-mux child node does not exist.
>>
>>  - #size-cells = <0>;
>> -   This property is required is the i2c-mux child node does not exist.
>> +   This property is required if the i2c-mux child node does not exist.
>>
>>  - i2c-mux
>>     For i2c multiplexers/switches that have child nodes that are a mixture
>>

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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