linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] staging: sm750fb: change function naming style

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Message-ID: <2025040711-refutable-monetary-f0c4@gregkh>
Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2025 07:59:39 +0200
From: Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To: Richard Akintola <princerichard17a@...il.com>
Cc: Samuel Abraham <abrahamadekunle50@...il.com>, outreachy@...ts.linux.dev,
	sudipm.mukherjee@...il.com, teddy.wang@...iconmotion.com,
	linux-fbdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-staging@...ts.linux.dev,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] staging: sm750fb: change function naming style

On Mon, Apr 07, 2025 at 06:57:38AM +0100, Richard Akintola wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM Samuel Abraham
> <abrahamadekunle50@...il.com> wrote:
> 
> > This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
> >   did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.
> >   Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the
> >   kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what
> >   needs to be done here to properly describe this.
> 
> 
> Hi Samuel,
> 
> I sent the patches individually before, but I was instructed to send a
> patch series.
> 
> Given that I didn't change any code, should I still add version number
> and sending
> patch series as the difference?

Yes.

Think about it from our side, what would you want to see if you had to
review hundreds of different patches a day?

thanks,

greg k-h