Please give advise about my first patch attempt

Garrit Franke garritfranke at gmail.com
Thu Aug 27 05:52:56 EDT 2020


Hi Thomas,

Noob here.

On Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 10:49 AM Thomas Schmitt <scdbackup at gmx.net> wrote:
>
> Commit 210ba1d1724f5c4ed87a2ab1a21ca861a915f734 of january 2008 switched
> sr_drive_status() away from indirectly using sr_do_ioctl() for sending
> TEST UNIT READY commands. sr_do_ioctl() has a wait-and-retry loop for
> the drive's intermediate sense reply:

In a recent Patch of mine, Greg nicely pointed out that commits should
have a standard format across mailing lists: sha ("Commit Message").

See: https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org/msg2235132.html

Regards
Garrit



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