On Tue, Jun 04, 2019 at 08:53:09AM +0000, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote: > On 04.06.19 08:47, Greg KH wrote: > > > Fixing up "ugly" comments should only be done on the drivers/staging/ > > tree, and people working there can do it "by hand" if they really want > > to. Don't annoy maintainers of other subsystems with changes like this, > > unless you want to be added to their mailbox kill-file. > > hmm, improving readability is not wanted ? > and what about things like fixing formatting, etc ? For some subsystems, that is not appreciated. > I've made the experience that some maintainers really welcomed that. > (even though that's obviously on a low priority). Again, it depends on the maintainer and the subsystem. The only place it is guaranteed that you can do this type of work is in driver/staging/ To do elsewhere is to risk annoying people, so I would not recommend it at all. thanks, greg k-h
