HOW DO I KNOW SOMEONE RECEIVED MY PATCH

Ron Guilmet ronpguilmet at gmail.com
Fri Sep 4 01:30:19 EDT 2020


Thank you for the links

On 9/4/20 1:28 AM, Lukas Bulwahn wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 4, 2020 at 6:10 AM Ronald P Guilmet <ronpguilmet at gmail.com> wrote:
>> I'm sure this has been asked before. I couldn't find any searches that answer this for me. I did the following:
>>
>> I made a file checkpatch clean.
>> I checked my patch with checkpatch clean
>> I used get_maintainer script to get emails to use for patch
>> I used git send-email. The results are OK
>> My concern is that my sendmail may not be setup right? I use Mutt and I have the muttrc setup as the Kernel docs show.
>>
>> Sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail -i pmladek at suse.com andriy.shevchenko at linux.intel.com sergey.senozhatsky at gmail.com gregkh at linuxfoundation.org gustavoars at kernel.org linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org ronpguilmet at gmail.com
> Ronald, you can check on lore.kernel.org if it has been received on
> the mailing list; I could not find it there after a quick look. Maybe
> there was a technical issue when you sent it?
>
> Generally, do not expect that checkpatch cleanup patches are well
> received. It would be better if you could actually test the braille
> console and find out if it still works properly, or to fix actual
> bugs, e.g., http://syzkaller.appspot.com/, might list some that are
> relevant and can be reproduced easily.
>
> Also, a subject line in capital letters is considered equivalent to
> shouting; there is no need to raise your voice here, though.
>
> Lukas



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