Re: [Outreachy kernel] [PATCH] Staging: Remove line to fix checkpatch error

[Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>]

On Sun, 11 Apr 2021, tawahpeggy wrote:

> remove one empty line.CHECK: Please don't use multiple blank lines

Did something go wrong with the patch generation?  You say that you are
removing one line, but the diff information looks like you are adding a
file.  Normally a patch has only the changed lines and a few lines before
and after.

> Signed-off-by: tawahpeggy <tawahpeggy98@gmail.com>

You need to put your real name when contributing to the Linux kernel.

For example, I would put:

Julia Lawall <julia.lawall@inria.fr>

julia

>
> ---
>  drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_pcmcia.mod.c | 1 -
>  1 file changed, 0 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>  create mode 100644 drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_pcmcia.mod.c
>
> diff --git a/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_pcmcia.mod.c b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_pcmcia.mod.c
> index 0904b8765afs96..3984db1a39c8
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/drivers/staging/comedi/comedi_pcmcia.mod.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
> #include <linux/module.h>
> #define INCLUDE_VERMAGIC
> #include <linux/build-salt.h>
> #include <linux/vermagic.h>
> #include <linux/compiler.h>
>
> BUILD_SALT;
>
> MODULE_INFO(vermagic, VERMAGIC_STRING);
> MODULE_INFO(name, KBUILD_MODNAME);
>
> __visible struct module __this_module
> __section(".gnu.linkonce.this_module") = {
> 	.name = KBUILD_MODNAME,
> 	.init = init_module,
> #ifdef CONFIG_MODULE_UNLOAD
> 	.exit = cleanup_module,
> #endif
> 	.arch = MODULE_ARCH_INIT,
> };
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_RETPOLINE
> MODULE_INFO(retpoline, "Y");
> #endif
>
> MODULE_INFO(staging, "Y");
>
> MODULE_INFO(depends, "pcmcia,comedi");
>
> -
> MODULE_INFO(srcversion, "ED971F2E01020DFA2B04486");
> --
> 2.17.1
> h-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
>
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