Re: [PATCH] ath11k (gcc13): synchronize ath11k_mac_he_gi_to_nl80211_he_gi()'s return type

[Kalle Valo]

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.

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