Re: [PATCH] Documentation/submitting-patches: Document RESEND tag on patches

[Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>]

Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> writes:

> Hi Jon,
>
> here's the next piece of documentation which should be generic enough.
>
> Thx.
>
> ---
> From: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2021 13:26:29 +0200
>
> Explain when a submitter should tag a patch or a patch series with the
> "RESEND" tag.
>
> This has been partially carved out from a tip subsystem handbook
> patchset by Thomas Gleixner:
>
>   https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20181107171010.421878737@linutronix.de
>
> and incorporates follow-on comments.
>
> Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de>
> ---
>  Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst | 10 ++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 10 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> index ab92d9ccd39a..9284735e0b34 100644
> --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
> @@ -346,6 +346,16 @@ that you have sent your patches to the right place.  Wait for a minimum of
>  one week before resubmitting or pinging reviewers - possibly longer during
>  busy times like merge windows.
>  
> +It's also ok to resend the patch or the patch series after a couple of
> +weeks with the word "RESEND" added to the subject line::
> +
> +   [PATCH Vx RESEND] sub/sys: Condensed patch summary
> +
> +Don't add "RESEND" when you are submitting a modified version of your
> +patch or patch series - "RESEND" only applies to resubmission of a
> +patch or patch series which have not been modified in any way from the
> +previous submission.
> +

Makes sense, applied.

For future installments, could you send them in their own thread as an
ordinary patch so I don't need to edit in the changelog after applying
them?

Thanks,

jon