From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jeff Garzik Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] NetXen: Add NETXEN prefix to macros Date: Sun, 03 Jun 2007 11:50:29 -0400 Message-ID: <4662E345.3070908@garzik.org> References: <200706011115.l51BFahX004752@dut39.unminc.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@vger.kernel.org, amitkale@netxen.com, netxenproj@linsyssoft.com, rob@netxen.com To: Mithlesh Thukral Return-path: Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:38375 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752505AbXFCPub (ORCPT ); Sun, 3 Jun 2007 11:50:31 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200706011115.l51BFahX004752@dut39.unminc.com> Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org Mithlesh Thukral wrote: > NetXen: Add NETXEN prefix to a macro > This patch will add the "NETXEN" prefix to "USER_START" macro. > > Signed-off by: Wen Xiong > Signed-off by: Mithlesh Thukral > --- > > drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic.h | 4 ++-- > drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_ethtool.c | 2 +- > drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c | 4 ++-- > drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c | 4 ++-- > 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) Your patch description is useless. Clearly we know -what- it does, simply by reading the patch. But it does not answer the simple question: why? why is this needed in a bug fix Release Candidate series?