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Date:	Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:22:22 -0500
From:	"devendra.aaru" <devendra.aaru@...il.com>
To:	Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:	Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
	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, Jan 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com> 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.
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