Re: [PATCH 1/3] staging: rtl8723bs: fix white space warnings

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 10:28:42PM -0700, Emily Peri wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 06:57:03AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 19, 2022 at 07:10:51PM -0700, Emily Peri wrote:
> > > Fix the following checkpatch warnings in rtw_ioctl_set:
> > > 1) Add missing blankline after declaration
> > > 2) Replace spaces used for indent with tab
> > > 3) Remove space before tab
> > 
> > When you have to list the different things you do, you should really
> > break that up into individual patches.  This should be 3.
> > 
> > thanks,
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Thanks greg for the feedback! I got the idea to put them all in the same
> patch from the PatchPhilosophy guide, which suggested combining a bunch
> of white space corrections into one commit. But, it sounds like I
> misinterpreted what the guide was saying. Maybe if there are identical
> warnings, such as "trailing white space" in the driver code, could those
> corrections go together in a single patch?
> 

Yes, you are correct, you could do a "fix all trailing whitespace in
this file" in one patch.

thanks,

greg k-h




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