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

From: Jakub Kicinski

Date: Sun Mar 29 2026 - 13:36:07 EST


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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