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

[Randy Dunlap]

On 11/2/22 23:20, Kalle Valo wrote:
> 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.
> 

Thank you. :)

-- 
~Randy