Re: [PATCH] acpi: fix typo

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Wed Apr 19 2017 - 15:35:04 EST


On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 7:21 AM, Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi
>
> On 04/19/2017 08:20 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 31, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Signed-off-by: Cao jin <caoj.fnst@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Documentation/acpi/linuxized-acpica.txt | 10 +++++-----
>>
>> Please send changes to this file separately.
>>
>>> include/acpi/actypes.h | 4 ++--
>>
>> This one belongs to ACPICA and there is a special process for
>> modifying ACPICA files.
>>
>
> I have read the process. So, does that means, we never send acpica patch
> to kernel mail list, they only can be sent to acpica project?

You can send them to linux-acpi, but then you need to CC the ACPICA
maintainers and development mailing list *and* make sure that the
patch modifies the ACPICA code only (ie. no mixed ACPICA and
non-ACPICA changes in one go, please).

Thanks,
Rafael