How to send the [PATCH 0/x] kind of emails?

[Mandeep Sandhu]

On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 12, 2014 at 02:29:22PM -0800, Mandeep Sandhu wrote:
>> Thanks Greg!
>>
>> One more thing. Should the 'Tested-by:' tag be added in every commit
>> manually, or only one of them is enough (the last patch really
>> implements the functionality and the rest are 'preparatory' commits)?
>
> "Tested-by" is only for people who test the patch, not for the people
> who wrote the patch.  It is implied that the person who wrote the patch
> also tested it, otherwise they shouldn't be sending the patch in the
> firat place, right?

Right, although in my case, I'm not the original author of this patch.
This is the uio hotplug patch that I talked to you about on this ML a
few days back (which somehow missed inclusion almost 4 years back).

I'm simply following your suggestion, that is re-submitting the patch
(after making some minor modifications to it for making it work with
newer kernels). The original patch author is "Eric W. Biederman". I
have tested this patch for my use-case (with a PCIE hotplug device)
and I have also written a small "fake hotplug" driver which validates
this patch (https://github.com/mandeepsandhu/uio-hotplug-test).

Let me know if this is not the appropriate way to submit the patch (if
only the original author should submit it instead).

Thanks for your time.

Regards,
-mandeep

>
> Hope this helps,
>
> greg k-h