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From: Markus Elfring <Markus.Elfring@web.de>
To: Dejin Zheng <zhengdejin5@gmail.com>,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com>,
	Brian Norris <briannorris@chromium.org>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Kalle Valo <kvalo@codeaurora.org>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>,
	Yan-Hsuan Chuang <yhchuang@realtek.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] net: rtw88: fix an issue about leak system resources
Date: Mon, 4 May 2020 17:00:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <882eacd1-1cbf-6aef-06c5-3ed6d402c0f5@web.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200504144206.GA5409@nuc8i5>

>>> the related system resources were not released when pci_iomap() return
>>> error in the rtw_pci_io_mapping() function. add pci_release_regions() to
>>> fix it.
>>
>> How do you think about a wording variant like the following?
>>
>>    Subject:
>>    [PATCH v2] net: rtw88: Complete exception handling in rtw_pci_io_mapping()
>>
>>    Change description:
>>    A call of the function “pci_request_regions” can fail here.
>>    The corresponding system resources were not released then.
>>    Thus add a call of the function “pci_release_regions”.
>>
>>
> Markus, I think my commit comments is a sufficiently clear description
> for this patch.

I got an other impression for specific aspects.


> Someone has told me not to send commit comments again and again
> when it is enough clear.

My patch review tries should give you hints where I noticed wording weaknesses.
The corresponding change tolerance can vary by involved contributors.


> Because it only wastes the precious time of the maintainer
> and very very little help for patch improvement.

I hope that also your commit messages will improve.


> BTW, In the past week, you asked me to change the commit comments in my
> 6 patches like this one. Let me return to the essence of patch, point
> out the code problems and better solutions will be more popular.

I would appreciate if various update suggestions would become nicer somehow.

Regards,
Markus

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-05-04 15:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-05-04 13:51 Markus Elfring
     [not found] ` <20200504144206.GA5409@nuc8i5>
2020-05-04 15:00   ` Markus Elfring [this message]
2020-05-04 17:03     ` Brian Norris
2020-05-04 17:19       ` Markus Elfring
2020-05-04 17:19       ` Markus Elfring
2020-05-05  0:59       ` [PATCH] " Dejin Zheng
2020-05-05  6:15         ` Markus Elfring
2020-05-05  8:52         ` [PATCH] " Andy Shevchenko
2020-05-05  9:03           ` net: rtw88: Fix an issue about leaking " Markus Elfring

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