From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934603AbcALJMc (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:12:32 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f52.google.com ([74.125.82.52]:32836 "EHLO mail-wm0-f52.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933393AbcALJMZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 04:12:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 09:12:21 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] mfd: smsc-ece1099: Fine-tuning for smsc_i2c_probe() Message-ID: <20160112091221.GU19803@x1> References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <5682957F.5000604@users.sourceforge.net> <20160111080850.GR3331@x1> <5694C0AF.2070809@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5694C0AF.2070809@users.sourceforge.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 12 Jan 2016, SF Markus Elfring wrote: > > This set is confusing. > > > > Why do you have a cover letter specifying this as a 2 patch set, > > yet there are 4 patches attached to it? > > I do not see too many messages for this update suggestion. In my inbox, your set looks like this: Dec 29 2015 SF Markus Elfring ( 0) ┬>[PATCH] mfd-dm355evm_msp: One function call less in add_child() after error detection Dec 29 2015 SF Markus Elfring ( 0) ├>[PATCH 0/2] mfd: smsc-ece1099: Fine-tuning for smsc_i2c_probe() Dec 29 2015 SF Markus Elfring ( 0) │├>[PATCH 2/2] mfd: smsc-ece1099: Refactoring for smsc_i2c_probe() Dec 29 2015 SF Markus Elfring ( 0) │└>[PATCH 1/2] mfd: smsc-ece1099: Delete an unnecessary variable initialisation in smsc_i2c_probe() Dec 29 2015 SF Markus Elfring ( 0) └>[PATCH] mfd: twl-core: One function call less in add_numbered_child() after error detection ... which is unconventional and pretty confusing. > >> From: Markus Elfring > >> Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 15:10:48 +0100 > > > > What format is this? > > Are such specifications needed to preserve the desired authorship information > during the transfer of commit messages by email? How did you sent this set? I fear you are sending these patches manually, using your mail client. You should instead be creating patches with `git format-patch` and sending them using `git send-email`. Then the formatting will be correct. -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog