Re: A quick guide to why stand-alone checkpatch patches suck...

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On 14-09-17 07:51 AM, Sudip Mukherjee wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2014 at 5:08 PM, nick <xerofoify@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> On 14-09-17 07:20 AM, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> <snip>
>>>   anyway, it's time for coffee.
>>>
>>> rday
>>>
>> Rday and others,
>> That's not what I wanted I was trying to improve my rep after getting banned from vger.org and now it seems
>> I can't even get a patch right. In addition I was trying to do check patch because  it was easier for me
>> due to not understanding some parts of the code.
>> Nick
>>
> 
> try to understand the code first. if you do not understand the code
> how do you know that your patch will not break any part of the logic .
> ok , by adding blank lines you will not break the logic.
> but yesterday in your other patch you removed an error message . may i
> ask why did you think that error message is not required ?
> 
> thanks
> sudip
> 
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I thought that the return statement of NULL to a caller was enough.
Nick 

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