> On 20-Mar-2016, at 9:18 PM, Joe Perches <j...@perches.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 2016-03-20 at 14:33 +0000, Parth Sane wrote: >> Fixed multiple parenthesis alignment warnings. >> Signed-off-by: Parth Sane <laerdevstud...@gmail.com> > > Please always add a blank line after your changelog and > before your "Signed-off-by:" line > >> diff --git a/drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c >> b/drivers/staging/rtl8712/hal_init.c > [] >> @@ -197,7 +197,7 @@ static u8 rtl8712_dl_fw(struct _adapter *padapter) >> 0x0000ffff); >> memcpy(ppayload, ptr, dump_imem_sz); >> r8712_write_mem(padapter, RTL8712_DMA_VOQ, >> - dump_imem_sz + TXDESC_SIZE, >> + dump_imem_sz + TXDESC_SIZE, >> (u8 *)ptx_desc); > > Please align all lines of multi-line statements. > > checkpatch is a stupid little script. > You have to make sure your own patches are sensible. > > There are several things you should read and > understand in the Documentation directory. > > Documentation/CodingStyle > Documentation/SubmittingPatches > Documentation/SubmitChecklist > > Fixing checkpatch messages is sometimes a decent > way to understand this process, but the patches > that can be generated fixing these messages tend > to have low overall value. > > After doing a few of these, please move on to > some part of the kernel that interests you and > submit new code or start to fix actual defects. > > Maybe if you are interested in wireless drivers, > buy a NIC that isn't supported by the mac80211 > drivers and adapt the existing staging driver for > that variant. > > Code, test, validate, submit, repeat... > Hi, I’m first trying my hands at easy stuff before I actually move on to more difficult stuff. I will surely look in that direction. Thanks for your valuable inputs. Regards, Parth Sane
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