netdev - Re: [PATCH] udp: Add support for getsockopt(..., ..., UDP

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Message-ID: <2e667826f183fbef101a62f0ad8ccb4ed253cb75.camel@redhat.com>
Date:   Fri, 26 Mar 2021 13:22:56 +0100
From:   Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com>
To:     Norman Maurer <norman_maurer@...le.com>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        davem@...emloft.net, dsahern@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] udp: Add support for getsockopt(..., ..., UDP_GRO, ...,
 ...)

On Fri, 2021-03-26 at 11:22 +0100, Norman Maurer wrote:
> On 26. Mar 2021, at 10:36, Paolo Abeni <pabeni@...hat.com> wrote:
> > One thing you can do to simplifies the maintainer's life, would be post
> > a v2 with the correct tag (and ev. obsolete this patch in patchwork).
> 
> I am quite new to contribute patches to the kernel so I am not sure
> how I would “obsolete” this patch and make a v2. If you can give me
> some pointers I am happy to do so.

Well, I actually gave you a bad advice about fiddling with patchwork.

The autoritative documentation:

Documentation/networking/netdev-FAQ.rst

(inside the kernel tree) suggests to avoid it.

Just posting a v2 will suffice.

Thanks!

Paolo