question on patch submission
Michael Mera
dev at michaelmera.com
Fri Apr 28 10:52:18 EDT 2017
Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> writes:
> Look at other patches on the mailing list and in your editor, all should
> be fine when you create it using git.
Ok. I indeed created it with git.
> Yes, make it a new version, as the version is the combination of both.
> Make it trivially easy for a maintainer to know which version to accept.
> Marking it as "RESEND" implies that either patch submission could be
> accepted, but marking it with a version is explicit as to which you
> should use.
Ok, I submitted a new version which I hope will be more appropriate.
> thanks,
>
> greg k-h
Thank you for taking the time to review these. Hopefully it will be less
painful for the futur patches.
Michael Mera
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