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Date:   Wed, 23 Nov 2022 15:16:32 +0000
From:   Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
To:     Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski@...aro.org>
Cc:     Owen Yang <ecs.taipeikernel@...il.com>,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Stephen Boyd <swboyd@...omium.org>, Harvey <hunge@...gle.com>,
        Bob Moragues <moragues@...omium.org>,
        Douglas Anderson <dianders@...omium.org>,
        Andy Gross <agross@...nel.org>,
        Bjorn Andersson <andersson@...nel.org>,
        Konrad Dybcio <konrad.dybcio@...aro.org>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzysztof.kozlowski+dt@...aro.org>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-msm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Add DT for
 sc7280-herobrine-zombie

On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 03:58:06PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/11/2022 15:39, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:11:13PM +0800, Owen Yang wrote:
> > 
> >> Subject: [2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Add DT for sc7280-herobrine-zombie
> > 
> > Please in include a version number for versions >1. If my accounting is correct
> > this is v3, so the next iteration should be v4.
> > 
> > You mentioned earlier that you are using patman. Add the following tag to
> > one of the patches in the series to get the version included in the subject:
> > 
> > Series-version: 4
> 
> It is a bit surprise that this patch is a v4...  because I do not
> remember v1 and v2... and v3. And no wonder since I was not CC-ed :/
> 
> It still surprised me how many people just cannot use
> scripts/get_maintainers.pl. Everywhere, in each company. There is a tool
> which they claim to use but they don't... or they base their patches on
> one year old kernel which is another surprise...

I suspect in this case the patches were based on a downstream tree. Owen is
probably newer to upstream kernel development, let's celebrate that more
people/companies get involved and guide them towards the upstream way of
doing things, which might not always be obvious to folks who are newer to
this :)