On Thu, Jul 06, 2023 at 10:48:56PM +0200, Philipp Hortmann wrote:
> On 7/6/23 03:59, Tree Davies wrote:
> > This patch renames variable bCurrentHTSupport to bcurrent_ht_support
> > to fix checkpatch warning Avoid CamelCase.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Tree Davies<tdavies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c | 12 ++++++------
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_HT.h | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_HTProc.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c | 16 ++++++++--------
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c | 2 +-
> > drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c | 8 ++++----
> > 8 files changed, 30 insertions(+), 30 deletions(-)
>
>
> Hi Tree,
>
> when I try to apply your patch on the top of all the other patches I get the
> following error message:
>
> kernel@matrix-ESPRIMO-P710:~/Documents/git/kernels/staging$ git apply -v
> ~/Downloads/20230706-\[PATCH\]\ staging_\ rtl8192e_\ Rename\ variable\
> bCurrentHTSupport-10002.txt
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_core.c...
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl8192e/rtl_wx.c...
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c...
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_HT.h...
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_HTProc.c...
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c...
> error: while searching for:
> crypt = ieee->crypt_info.crypt[ieee->crypt_info.tx_keyidx];
> encrypt = ieee->host_encrypt && crypt && crypt->ops &&
> ((strcmp(crypt->ops->name, "R-WEP") == 0 || wpa_ie_len));
> if (ieee->ht_info->bCurrentHTSupport) {
> tmp_ht_cap_buf = (u8 *)&(ieee->ht_info->SelfHTCap);
> tmp_ht_cap_len = sizeof(ieee->ht_info->SelfHTCap);
> tmp_ht_info_buf = (u8 *)&(ieee->ht_info->SelfHTInfo);
>
> error: patch failed: drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c:816
> error: drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac.c: patch does not apply
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_softmac_wx.c...
> Checking patch drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib_tx.c...
>
>
> My be the previous send patches are not taken then your chance is better
> that this one will fit. Will see what happens.
>
>
> You need to put your patches into a patch series.
> This reduces email traffic as the reviewer can just send one email and does
> not need to send four.
>
> A possible command for a patch series is looking like this:
> git format-patch -o ~/Documents/kernel/patches/ --cover-letter -n
> --thread=shallow --to="Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,linux-staging@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx,linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx"
> 4bbbd60d84e15fdb7bffde98a687ed168a4dfbbd^..HEAD
>
> Use the git commit id of your first patch.
>
> Bye Philipp
>
>
Philipp,
I think I understand what I did wrong. Each of these original patches were
created/based from the same commit hash. So it makes sense that only the
first one applied would apply cleanly and the others would fail.
My apologies,
Tree
