linux-kernel - RE: [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] tpm: add longer timeouts for creation commands.

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Date:   Wed, 7 Mar 2018 16:04:02 +0000
From:   "Winkler, Tomas" <tomas.winkler@...el.com>
To:     Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>,
        Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
CC:     James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...senPartnership.com>,
        Jarkko Sakkinen <jarkko.sakkinen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@...pe.ca>,
        "Usyskin, Alexander" <alexander.usyskin@...el.com>,
        "linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org" <linux-integrity@...r.kernel.org>,
        "\"linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org\\\"
        <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>, \"@lwn.net" 
        <"linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org\" <linux-security-module@...r.kernel.org>, "@lwn.net>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 1/3 RESEND] tpm: add longer timeouts for creation
 commands.


> 
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2018 13:36:36 -0500
> Mimi Zohar <zohar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > I've heard that some maintainers are moving away from cover letters,
> > since they are not include in the git repo and are lost.
> 
> If I get a patch series with a cover letter that should be preserved, I apply the
> series in a branch then do a no-ff merge; the cover letter can then go into
> the merge commit.  There's no reason why cover letters need to be lost.

That's clever, but still it feels like a hack. 
I've try to keep cover letters as an empty commits for that but it has to be always forced when rebasing.
Not sure git has a real user friendly support for that.

Tomas