Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] hamradio: mkiss: modernize and clean up mkiss driver

From: Jakub Kicinski <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2026 10:35:08 -0700

On Sun, 29 Mar 2026 22:34:03 +0800 Mashiro Chen wrote:
> This patch series modernizes the mkiss driver, which is used for
> AX.25 communication over serial lines.

Quoting documentation:

  Clean-up patches
  ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
  
  Netdev discourages patches which perform simple clean-ups, which are not in
  the context of other work. For example:
  
  * Addressing ``checkpatch.pl``, and other trivial coding style warnings
  * Addressing :ref:`Local variable ordering<rcs>` issues
  * Conversions to device-managed APIs (``devm_`` helpers)
  
  This is because it is felt that the churn that such changes produce comes
  at a greater cost than the value of such clean-ups.
  
  Conversely, spelling and grammar fixes are not discouraged.
  
See: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/next/process/maintainer-netdev.html#clean-up-patches
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pw-bot: reject