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From: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com>
To: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Cc: "Devendra.Naga" <devendra.aaru@gmail.com>,
	chaoming_li@realsil.com.cn, linville@tuxdriver.com,
	linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org, netdev@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] wireless: remove return in _rtl_pci_switch_clk_req
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:45:03 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1327967103.4230.7.camel@joe2Laptop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F27294D.30302@lwfinger.net>

On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 17:35 -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> The patch is OK, but the patch subject is bad. You should have "[PATCH] 
> rtlwifi:...". Your patch is for rtlwifi, not wireless.

Hi Devendra.

A reasonable rule of thumb is use the deepest directory
path basename you can to prefix the patch.
Something like:

[PATCH] $(basename $(dirname $file)): terse description

If you are patching drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/apt.c
this becomes:

[PATCH] realtek: terse description

There are some exceptions though.  One of them
is if the patch is in staging, prefix with
[PATCH] staging: $(basename $(dirname $file)): description

cheers, Joe

  reply	other threads:[~2012-01-30 23:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-01-30 12:46 [PATCH 1/1] wireless: remove return in _rtl_pci_switch_clk_req Devendra.Naga
2012-01-30 23:35 ` Larry Finger
2012-01-30 23:45   ` Joe Perches [this message]
2012-01-31  6:22     ` devendra.aaru

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