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Message-ID: <1335390717-32165-1-git-send-email-snijsure@grid-net.com>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:51:57 -0700
From: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@...d-net.com>
To: <rdunlap@...otime.net>, <linux-doc@...r.kernel.org>
CC: <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
<snijsure@...d-net.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend correct way to submit new version of the patches.
Russell King suggested proper way to submit new versions of the patches.
See http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-April/096236.html
Modify SubmittingPatches to summerize that recommendation.
Signed-off-by: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@...d-net.com>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 12 ++++++++++++
1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 4468ce2..4b166a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -579,6 +579,18 @@ use diffstat options "-p 1 -w 70" so that filenames are listed from
the top of the kernel source tree and don't use too much horizontal
space (easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some indentation).
+Please don't thread the posting of a new version of the patches to
+the previous posting of the older version. In other words, the
+initial summary mail for Vn should not be threaded to the Vn-1
+series, and the individual patches for Vn should only be threaded
+to the initial summary mail for Vn. This is to avoid one massive
+thread for a proposed patch.
+
+If you wish to provide a direct reference back to a previous thread,
+please do so via URLs into archives, or providing the message id or
+exact subject of the previous series in the new summary message body.
+But please don't thread each version to the previous version!
+
See more details on the proper patch format in the following
references.
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1.7.5.4
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