On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 1:57 AM, Eugene Voronkov
<[email protected]>wrote:

> I watched Kroah-Hartman's video[1] on submitting patches where he walks
> through the process of fixing coding style.  I feel like this would be a
> good way for me to jump into the process but I need more information.  At
> what point do code style patches stop being more trouble then they're worth
> to the maintainers?  For example, running checkpatch.pl against all files
> is showing around 3 non-trivial style violations per file.  Would a patch
> fixing 12 violations across 4 files be worth submitting?
>

Suggestion would be, divide your single patch in separate individual
patches with respect to functionality/violations fix.


>
> 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLBrBBImJt4
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