Patch submission issue

[Greg KH]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2014 at 07:23:08AM +0530, Raghavendra wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I am new to the kernel development community and I started off by fixing 
> small coding style errors in the drivers/staging directory. I've created 
> a patch for the same and sent it to the maintainer. The maintainer 
> replied to me something like this :
> 
> "
> Please don't do multiple things in the same patch, a single patch should
> only do 1 thing.  So break this up into multiple patches.
> "
> 
> And my patch looks something like this :
> 
>  From 7effd3d61c6ce08cd44df0a5ba3d1e9ac9ab5a98 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> 
> From: Raghavendra <arrao at cdac.in>
> 
> Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2014 22:04:52 +0530
> 
> Subject: [PATCH] Staging: rtl8192e: dot11d: Fixed coding style issues
> 
> Replaced 'printk' with 'netdev_info' and 'netdev_err' wherever necessary.
> 
> Also fixed the coding issue cooresponding to line gap after the declarations.

You said "also", so that means you did 2 different things.  Split this
up into two different patches, one doing the first thing, and the second
the second thing.

See the documentation for how to do multiple patches in an email series.

thanks,

greg k-h