linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/1] wireless: remove return in _rtl_pci_switch_clk

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Message-ID: <1327967103.4230.7.camel@joe2Laptop>
Date:	Mon, 30 Jan 2012 15:45:03 -0800
From:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>
Cc:	"Devendra.Naga" <devendra.aaru@...il.com>,
	chaoming_li@...lsil.com.cn, linville@...driver.com,
	linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] wireless: remove return in _rtl_pci_switch_clk_req

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.

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

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