From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: Naveenan <initramd@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Patches submitted should apply to which git repository?
Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 09:51:33 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1293526293.3526.1.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTi=MhYzv54WvEwYGh15KC4LHyM=EVd-s+1BG8pBT@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2010-12-28 at 02:40 -0600, Naveenan wrote:
> Hi,
> I would like to submit a patch to linux-wireless and was wondering
> what git repository should my patch be apply-able to so that there
> wouldn't be any merge conflicts?
>
> I went through:
> http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
> but couldn't find this information there so was hoping someone could
> point the exact git repository. My current patch applies to
> wireless-testing but doesn't apply to wireless-2.6 (due to a trivial
> merge conflict) . The changes I'm making are to mac80211.
If they're fixes and required in wireless-2.6, then you should make them
apply there, but ask yourself if they really need to be there. If not,
you can typically just submit them on top of wireless-testing, although
they will have to be applied to wireless-next-2.6.
johannes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-12-28 8:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-12-28 8:40 Patches submitted should apply to which git repository? Naveenan
2010-12-28 8:51 ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2010-12-28 9:12 ` Naveenan
2010-12-28 9:15 ` Johannes Berg
2010-12-28 9:28 ` Naveenan
2010-12-28 9:33 ` Johannes Berg
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