From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932349Ab0IXPtg (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:49:36 -0400 Received: from kroah.org ([198.145.64.141]:47023 "EHLO coco.kroah.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753014Ab0IXPtf (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Sep 2010 11:49:35 -0400 Date: Fri, 24 Sep 2010 08:49:27 -0700 From: Greg KH To: Tracey Dent , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/5] Staging: rtl8187se: r8180.h: fixed alot of checkpatch.pl issues Message-ID: <20100924154927.GA20767@kroah.com> References: <1285031982-3870-1-git-send-email-tdent48227@gmail.com> <20100922232458.GB18432@haskell.muteddisk.com> <20100923022256.GB27057@kroah.com> <20100924063616.GD18432@haskell.muteddisk.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100924063616.GD18432@haskell.muteddisk.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 11:36:16PM -0700, matt mooney wrote: > While I have your attention, I am changing all makefiles to use the newer kbuild > flag variables, such as ccflags-y, asflags-y, and ldflags-y. I have already > completed this for all directories in the kernel except drivers which is > next. The patches are trivial but there are a lot in drivers, so should I break > it down by driver or is subdirectory okay? media/video has 85 instances in > something like 12 different subdirectories, so I am not sure what is > best. Please let me know what is best. It all depends on the subsystem maintainer, I suggest asking them for what they wish to have you send them. good luck, greg k-h