From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752905AbbAMF7S (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:59:18 -0500 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:39987 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751240AbbAMF7O (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Jan 2015 00:59:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 12 Jan 2015 19:36:40 -0800 From: Greg Kroah-Hartman To: sunwxg Cc: Forest Bond , Guido =?iso-8859-1?Q?Mart=EDnez?= , Silvio Fricke , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] staging:vt6655 Add extern variable in head file Message-ID: <20150113033640.GB31093@kroah.com> References: <1418715590-10074-2-git-send-email-sun.wxg@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1418715590-10074-2-git-send-email-sun.wxg@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 03:39:50PM +0800, sunwxg wrote: > From: Sun Wang > > Subject: [PATCH] staging:vt6655 Add extern variable in head file Why is this in the middle of the patch? I would have to hand edit it out :( > > Extern variable must be declared in head file. Compiler can catch the inconsistency when variable changes. Always wrap your changelog at 72 columns. Please fix up and resend. thanks, greg k-h