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Message-ID: <20251223011532.4337-1-sj@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 17:15:31 -0800
From: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>
To: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@...hat.com>
Cc: SeongJae Park <sj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	david@...nel.org,
	shuah@...nel.org,
	linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kselftest@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	lorenzo.stoakes@...cle.com,
	Liam.Howlett@...cle.com,
	vbabka@...e.cz,
	rppt@...nel.org,
	surenb@...gle.com,
	mhocko@...e.com,
	Luiz Capitulino <luizcap@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/5] selftests/mm: fix va_high_addr_switch.sh return value

On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:32:16 +0800 Chunyu Hu <chuhu@...hat.com> wrote:

> On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 10:57:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:21 +0800 Chunyu Hu <chuhu@...hat.com> wrote:
[...]
> > > According to the doc below, I don't add the cover letter, not sure if cover
> > > letter is preferred, and if that's the case, the doc need an update.
> > 
> > Funnily enough, your series was in the exact format which I use when
> > committing patch series.  Usually people put the cover letter in a
> > separate [0/N] email and I move that into the [1/N] patch's changelog,
> > as you've done here.
> 
> yes, I see cover-letter is the actualy way people is using and looks
> like I did some of your work putting that cover letter into the first
> patch. I think I'll add cover-letter in the future.
> 
> 
> > 
> > > https://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
> > 
> > God does that still exist?  Pretty soon it will be able to legally
> > drink in bars.
> > 
> > I think its content got absorbed into a Documentation/ file a long time
> > ago!
> 
> I happened to open it before I submitting my patch, and wanted to know 
> what would happen if I follow that. And it looks like cover letter has
> become the actual convention.

I think you could use
Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst instead.  The html version is also
available at
https://origin.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html


Thanks,
SJ

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