From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752381Ab2KPRdB (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:33:01 -0500 Received: from mail-pa0-f46.google.com ([209.85.220.46]:59627 "EHLO mail-pa0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752218Ab2KPRdA (ORCPT ); Fri, 16 Nov 2012 12:33:00 -0500 Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2012 09:32:56 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Johan Meiring Cc: pe1dnn@amsat.org, jkosina@suse.cz, standby24x7@gmail.com, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] staging: wlags49_h2: mdd.h: fixes tons of coding style issues Message-ID: <20121116173256.GB31589@kroah.com> References: <1353084911-8908-1-git-send-email-johanmeiring@gmail.com> <20121116170616.GB30626@kroah.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, Nov 16, 2012 at 07:09:14PM +0200, Johan Meiring wrote: > Will do. Just a quick question: Is it acceptable to submit small > patches even if the main file still fails the checkpatch,pl script? > i.e. is it OK to fix e.g. the first 20 instances of C99 // comment > usage, even if 200 remain afterwards, and then fix them later? Yes, that is fine. thanks, greg k-h