linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: stmmac: Add support for MDIO interrupts

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Message-ID: <20190905064002.GB415@lunn.ch>
Date:   Thu, 5 Sep 2019 08:40:02 +0200
From:   Andrew Lunn <andrew@...n.ch>
To:     "Voon, Weifeng" <weifeng.voon@...el.com>
Cc:     "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Maxime Coquelin <mcoquelin.stm32@...il.com>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Jose Abreu <joabreu@...opsys.com>,
        Giuseppe Cavallaro <peppe.cavallaro@...com>,
        Alexandre Torgue <alexandre.torgue@...com>,
        "Ong, Boon Leong" <boon.leong.ong@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: stmmac: Add support for MDIO interrupts

> 
> The change log is near the end of the patch:
> /**
> --
> Changelog v2
> *mdio interrupt mode or polling mode will depends on mdio interrupt enable bit
> *Disable the mdio interrupt enable bit in stmmac_release
> *Remove the condition for initialize wait queues
> *Applied reverse Christmas tree
> 1.9.1

At the end, nobody sees it, because everybody else does it at the beginning.

https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html?highlight=submitting#the-canonical-patch-format

This talks about the ---. David prefers to see the change log before
the ---. Other maintainers want it after the ---.

> 
> > 
> > The formatting of this patch also looks a bit odd. Did you use git
> > format-patch ; git send-email?
> 
> Yes, I do git format-patch, then ./scripts/checkpatch.pl. 
> Lastly git send-email

What looked odd is the missing --- marker. git format-patch should of
create that as part of the patch.

       Andrew