What's wrong with my patch?

Laurent Navet laurent.navet at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 03:14:19 EST 2016


 29 Feb is only one week old,
your patch is in queue, just wait.

2016-03-08 6:31 UTC+01:00, Navy Cheng <navych at 126.com>:
> Hi,
> I have sent a patch on 29 Feb, but no reply. I want to know what's wrong
> with my patch so that I can improve it and myself. my patch is like this:
>
>> Date: Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:41:34 +0800
>> From: Navy Cheng <navych at 126.com>
>> To: Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg at kroah.com>
>> Cc: Lidza Louina <lidza.louina at gmail.com>, kernelnewbies
>> <kernelnewbies at kernelnewbies.org>
>> Subject: [PATCH] staging: dgnc: Remove useless and deadly judgment
>> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12)
>>
>> pci_unregister_driver() should be used once dgnc module exit. It has
>> nothing to do with dgnc_NumBoards. Remove the judgment of dgnc_NumBoards
>> to
>> avoid pci_unregister_driver() is not used when dgnc_NumBoards is 0.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Navy Cheng <navych at 126.com>
>> ---
>>  drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c | 3 +--
>>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>> b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>> index fc6d298..20b0c3b 100644
>> --- a/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>> +++ b/drivers/staging/dgnc/dgnc_driver.c
>> @@ -156,8 +156,7 @@ static void dgnc_cleanup_module(void)
>>
>>         dgnc_tty_post_uninit();
>>
>> -       if (dgnc_NumBoards)
>> -               pci_unregister_driver(&dgnc_driver);
>> +       pci_unregister_driver(&dgnc_driver);
>>  }
>>
>>  /*
>
> Thank you :)
>
>
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