On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 07:10:41PM -0600, Paul H wrote: > A tutorial I read suggested using a different branch for applying the > patches; I named it "fix-spaces". It would appear it is mistaken > then? You have to make your patch against the linux-next tree, not Linus's tree, so as to not duplicate other people's work that has already been accepted. You can name your branch whatever you want to, that doesn't matter :) greg k-h _______________________________________________ devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://driverdev.linuxdriverproject.org/mailman/listinfo/driverdev-devel