On Mon, 15 Aug 2016, Vegard Nossum wrote:

> On 15 August 2016 at 13:12, SF Markus Elfring
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > From: Markus Elfring <[email protected]>
> > Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2016 13:03:29 +0200
> >
> > The field "owner" is set by core. Thus delete an extra initialisation.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Just a small nit on the patch title: "delete owner assignment" is
> virtually useless as a title because it has no meaning without the
> broader context and only describes the literal change. It's like
> naming a patch "add a line" or "change the code"; it serves no
> purpose.
> 
> How about "backlight-tosa: delete _unnecessary_ assignment"? This
> immediately communicates the reason for/intent of the patch (there is
> unnecessary code, thus we can simplify it).

  backlight-tosa: Do not manually assign THIS_MODULE to .owner

  This is unnecessary because ...

> (Sorry about singling out this patch and the apparent bikeshedding,
> this comment obviously applies to a lot of patches by a lot of
> authors!)
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> Vegard

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