Hi, On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 12:15 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 03:41:08PM +0530, Adil Mujeeb wrote: >> On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 2:04 AM, Greg KH <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > On Fri, Oct 12, 2012 at 10:07:06PM +0530, Adil Mujeeb wrote: >> >> >> >> winbond directory files have lots of coding style issues. The patch set tries to remove *most* (if not all) of the coding style issues. checkpatch.pl script is still complaining (like 80 characters limit) but major part of the serious coding style issues have been rectified. >> > >> > None of your patches can be applied due to the wrong patch level they >> > were generated at. Please redo them, drop the two offending patches, >> > and resend the whole series. >> > >> > thanks, >> > >> > greg k-h >> >> Thanks Greg. I will recreate the patches and shall drop the mentioned >> ones. But I am still not able find where I am doing wrong in >> generating the patches. I am following your tutorial :) but may be >> missing something. Please help. I am doing in the following ways: >> >> 1. I am downloading the latest rc source archive from ftp.kernel.org >> under directory /pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/testing >> 2. Then creating my own git repository treating the base source as master. > > Why not just use the kernel git tree? You will have to work off of > linux-next if you want to send staging patches, you can not keep up with > development otherwise. Thanks Gree for your suggestion. I am using now linux-next tree. Interestingly some of my patches already submitted by now :) > >> 3. Creating a branch from it and tries to fix some sources. >> 4. Create the patch through git format-patch >> 5. Submit the patch through git send-email command. >> >> Dry run works fine with my repository. Could you please help? > > Your patches could not be applied with "patch -p1" from the root of the > kernel source tree, I think you created your git repo one directory too > deep. Thanks for correcting me. I have realized my mistake. I have submitted fresh patches. Thanks, Adil > > greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
