Change IDs for kernel patches [LWN.net]

Change IDs for kernel patches

Posted Aug 30, 2019 13:02 UTC (Fri) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389)
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Hmm. How hard would it be to ask that subsequent submissions use `--in-reply-to=` the previous patchset (usually its cover letter)? That's what I do on my (admittedly rare) submissions. It keeps the patchsets together in mail viewers and provides context for the previous submission(s).

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Change IDs for kernel patches

Posted Sep 1, 2019 20:32 UTC (Sun) by pbonzini (subscriber, #60935) [Link] (1 responses)

Most maintainers actually dislike that, because they (or their scripts) are used to having one thread per submission---so if you want to apply temporarily v(n-1) it would be harder to extract the appropriate patches out of a thread that includes multiple versions. Others' scripts might have different issues.

Change IDs for kernel patches

Posted Sep 2, 2019 17:28 UTC (Mon) by mathstuf (subscriber, #69389) [Link]

Hmm. I haven't been told to stop doing it yet (like I said, my submissions are rare). I feel like such scripts could easily be modified to only look at reroll count subject prefixes or only find patches under a given cover letter. *shrug* it's a thought. I don't maintain any kernel bits, but it's probably how I'd run it if I were to do so.