From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] NetXen: Fixed /sys mapping between device and driver Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:26:58 -0500 Message-ID: <4559E042.6080100@garzik.org> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, Sanjeev Jorapur , Rob Mapes , wendyx@us.ibm.com, brazilnut@us.ibm.com, netxenproj@linsyssoft.com, Andrew Morton Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:960 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965938AbWKNP1F (ORCPT ); Tue, 14 Nov 2006 10:27:05 -0500 To: "Amit S. Kale" In-Reply-To: Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Amit S. Kale wrote: > > Signed-off-by: Amit S. Kale ACK technical content, but git-applymbox claims the patches are corrupted. Also, please realize that your email subject line is used as a one-line summary for your change, copied directly into the kernel change log. ref http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html As such, having two patches with the identical subject "NetXen: 1G/10G Ethernet Driver updates" is bad form, because it is overly vague, and fails to adequately summarize the changeset. Example summaries: patch #2: NetXen: temp monitoring, de-bloat, support newer firmware patch #3: NetXen: driver cleanup, 64-bit memory fixes