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Re: [PATCH 00/17] RTL8187SE driver cleanups

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On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 04:37:31PM -0600, Larry Finger wrote:
> On 11/12/2012 03:58 PM, Maxim Mikityanskiy wrote:
> >There are some bug fixes, cleanups and dead code removal for
> >drivers/staging/rtl8187se
> 
> There is a serious problems with your patches. The text in
> Documentation/SubmittingPatches says:
> 
> "All changes to the Linux kernel occur in the form of patches, as
> generated by diff(1).  When creating your patch, make sure to create it
> in "unified diff" format, as supplied by the '-u' argument to diff(1).
> Also, please use the '-p' argument which shows which C function each
> change is in - that makes the resultant diff a lot easier to read.
> Patches should be based in the root kernel source directory,
> not in any lower subdirectory."
> 
> You satisfied the requirements for -u and -p, but you based then on
> the wrong directory. I can use sed to rewrite this version for
> testing, but please use the correct base in future versions.

Yeah, as-is, I can't take these, sorry.  At the least, fix up the
Subject: and the diff level and please resend.

thanks,

greg k-h
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