Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: >>>> Yeah, using "wifi:" is a new prefix we started using with wireless >>>> patches this year. >>>> >>> >>> It would be nice if that was documented somewhere... >> >> It is mentioned on our wiki but I doubt anyone reads it :) > > I think that you are correct. ;) > >> https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches#subject >> >> Do let me know if there are other places which should have this info. > > Ideally it would be in the subsystem's profile document as described in the > MAINTAINERS file: > > P: Subsystem Profile document for more details submitting > patches to the given subsystem. This is either an in-tree file, > or a URI. See Documentation/maintainer/maintainer-entry-profile.rst > for details. > > although that seems to be overkill IMHO just to add a prefix: setting. > > You could just clone some other maintainer's Profile document and then modify it > to anything that you would like to have in it as far as Maintaining and patching > are concerned. Ah, we should add that doc for wireless. Thanks for the idea, I added that to my todo list. -- https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-wireless/list/ https://wireless.wiki.kernel.org/en/developers/documentation/submittingpatches
