Re: [PATCH] Staging: ft1000: fix spaces around comparisons in ft1000_debug.c

From: Greg KH
Date: Tue Dec 02 2014 - 20:31:13 EST


On Tue, Dec 02, 2014 at 07:10:41PM -0600, Paul H wrote:
> A tutorial I read suggested using a different branch for applying the
> patches; I named it "fix-spaces". It would appear it is mistaken
> then?

You have to make your patch against the linux-next tree, not Linus's
tree, so as to not duplicate other people's work that has already been
accepted.

You can name your branch whatever you want to, that doesn't matter :)

greg k-h
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