On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Joe Perches <joe@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2012-01-30 at 17:35 -0600, Larry Finger wrote: >> The patch is OK, but the patch subject is bad. You should have "[PATCH] >> rtlwifi:...". Your patch is for rtlwifi, not wireless. > Will post a new patch, Thanks !! > Hi Devendra. > > A reasonable rule of thumb is use the deepest directory > path basename you can to prefix the patch. > Something like: > > [PATCH] $(basename $(dirname $file)): terse description > > If you are patching drivers/net/ethernet/realtek/apt.c > this becomes: > > [PATCH] realtek: terse description > > There are some exceptions though. One of them > is if the patch is in staging, prefix with > [PATCH] staging: $(basename $(dirname $file)): description > > cheers, Joe > Thanks a lot Joe, will follow your suggestions :). Devendra. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
