[alsa-devel] [PATCH 4/5] ASoC: wm8960: add support for big-endian audio samples

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 02:58:29AM +0000, Tabi Timur-B04825 wrote:
> Mark Brown wrote:

> > ...please don't introduce unrelated changes, especially ones you don't
> > mention in the changelog.

> Well, the introduction of variable 'format' is for the default case in the 
> switch statement:

I saw that, that's why I didn't write "random stylistic changes" (as I
had originally, I nearly discarded the patch before I read that far).

> +       default:
> +               dev_err(codec->dev, "unsupported format %i\n", format);
> +               return -EINVAL;

> I would not call this change "unrelated".

It's not adding a new format, it's changing the error reporting.  That's
a sensible thing to do and could have been done as part of the same
patch but it should've been mentioned in the changelog.