From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762328AbcALLOP (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 06:14:15 -0500 Received: from mail-wm0-f43.google.com ([74.125.82.43]:35069 "EHLO mail-wm0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1762310AbcALLOM (ORCPT ); Tue, 12 Jan 2016 06:14:12 -0500 Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2016 11:14:07 +0000 From: Lee Jones To: SF Markus Elfring Cc: LKML , kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, Julia Lawall Subject: Re: mfd: smsc-ece1099: Fine-tuning for smsc_i2c_probe() Message-ID: <20160112111407.GC27358@x1> References: <566ABCD9.1060404@users.sourceforge.net> <5682957F.5000604@users.sourceforge.net> <20160111080850.GR3331@x1> <5694C0AF.2070809@users.sourceforge.net> <20160112091221.GU19803@x1> <5694DD6C.7050405@users.sourceforge.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <5694DD6C.7050405@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: > > In my inbox, your set looks like this: > > Thanks for your information. - I find the display correct. > > > ... which is unconventional and pretty confusing. > > Do you request that I should resend my four update suggestions > for different components as a single patch series for the software > area "drivers/mfd"? You have to make that decision yourself. What I'm saying is, if the cover letter says there are 2 patches in the set, that's what we should expect. > > I fear you are sending these patches manually, using your mail client. > > I admit that I am doing this usually. Please don't do that. > > You should instead be creating patches with `git format-patch` > > This happens also … > > > and sending them using `git send-email`. > > I prefer other software tools for this task so far. Such as? -- Lee Jones Linaro STMicroelectronics Landing Team Lead Linaro.org │ Open source software for ARM SoCs Follow Linaro: Facebook | Twitter | Blog