Re: sanity check typo patch "quired"

2024-07-01 Thread daniel watson
Thanks! "Ricardo B. Marliere" writes: > From a quick glance at the git blame, seems that "docs: admin-guide: > ..." or ever "docs/admin-guide/mm" should suit better. Perhaps mention > in the subject line that its a typo fix aswell. I ended up going with this subject: Subject: [PATCH] docs/adm

sanity check typo patch "quired"

2024-06-26 Thread daniel watson
here's a patch to fix a typo in the memory management docs. i'm sending to this mailing list first for a sanity check. From: Daniel Watson To: Jonathan Corbet ,linux-...@vger.kernel.org,linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 21:18:22 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] mm: doc

Fwd: Mail delivery failed: returning message to sender

2024-03-24 Thread daniel watson
eporting-MTA: dns; shelob.surriel.com > > Action: failed > Final-Recipient: > rfc822;kernelnewbies-confirm+dad8ab63e98c6c9aaa9b98b31156bcabb0d31...@kernelnewbies.org > Status: 5.0.0 > > From: daniel watson > Subject: Re: Your confirmation is required to join the

Re: screening patch here before sending to devs

2023-03-28 Thread Daniel Watson
that's exciting! that means i can read it to see what is involved. thanks for prompting me to check on whether it was possible. ___ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@kernelnewbies.org https://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies

Re: screening patch here before sending to devs

2023-03-28 Thread Daniel Watson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 09:57:52AM +0200, Greg KH wrote: > Are you sure that it is even possible to change this from the operating > system while the system is running? It might be restricted only to the > BIOS settings. it is possible! it has already been done. https://lkml.org/lkml/2022/1/4/116

Re: screening patch here before sending to devs

2023-03-28 Thread Daniel Watson
On Tue, Mar 28, 2023 at 09:03:17AM +0200, Lukas Bulwahn wrote: > Hi Daniel, Hi! thanks for pre-reviewing! > > Sometimes patches show up multiple times in lore.kernel.org archives, > as some mailing list add further footers, so the same content sent is > recorded slightly differently in the archive

screening patch here before sending to devs

2023-03-27 Thread Daniel Watson
: Greg Kroah-Hartman ,linux-stag...@lists.linux.dev,linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] staging: rtl8723bs: move { onto opening line of if Checkpatch flagged this as a fixable style error. Signed-off-by: Daniel Watson --- drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtw_recv.h | 9 +++-- 1

how do you find the subsystem of a file?

2021-08-30 Thread daniel watson
i wrote a patch that got rejected because it did not apply cleanly to the tree of greg kh https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/18/304 the file i modified is drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtl8192c_recv.h get_maintainer.pl gave me the list of emails to send the patch to, and i used it for that purpose.

surround complex macros in ()

2021-08-26 Thread daniel watson
let me know if this is the right place to ask. i recently tried to make a commit adding parentheses around a macro value. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-staging/20210817043038.ga9...@challenge-bot.com/ it was rejected as "This is not a real change that is needed." at first, i thought this meant

Re: how do you find the subsystem of a file?

2021-08-21 Thread daniel watson
On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 12:30:27AM -0700, daniel watson wrote: > i wrote a patch that got rejected because it did not apply cleanly to > the tree of greg kh > https://lkml.org/lkml/2021/8/18/304 > > the file i modified is > drivers/staging/rtl8723bs/include/rtl8192c_recv.h >