Many thanks for all the clarifications — it’s my first time using
git-send-email and first time with mailing-list-based devel workflows. Will
adjust accordingly, work through gitlab, and eventually resend via
git-publish as v2.

On Thu, Oct 14, 2021 at 3:04 AM Greg Kurz <groug@kaod.org> wrote:

> Hi Will,
>
> It is strongly recommended that you Cc maintainers to increase the odds
> they notice your patches in the flood of qemu-devel. FYI I only noticed
> them because git-send-email Cc'd me thanks to the Reviewed-by: tags and
> my address didn't change in the meantime. I'm thus Cc'ing Christian
> who is the primary maintainer now (i.e. the person that can merge
> your patches and send a PR for upstream inclusion).
>
> FWIW git-publish [1] can Cc the relevant people for free.
>
> [1] https://github.com/stefanha/git-publish
>
> On Wed, 13 Oct 2021 19:03:54 -0400
> Will Cohen <wwcohen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This is a continuation of a patch series adding 9p server support for
> Darwin,
> > originally submitted by Keno Fischer in mid-2018
> > (https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2018-06/msg04643.html).
> In
> > some sense, this could be considered [PATCH v4] of that process, but I
> assume
> > that the multi-year gap merits a fresh start..
> >
>
> This makes sense. For consistency with that assumption, it would also
> make sense to clear all preexisting Reviewed-by: tags.
>
> > It has since been updated and rebased for NixOS by Michael Roitzsch
> > (https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/122420) with a goal of
> resubmitting
> > upstream. I am submitting his patch set as suggested, as developed by
> Michael,
> > with his Signed-off-by headers included in full.
> >
>
> QEMU cares about tracking of who did what and follows a policy inspired
> from the linux kernel [2] [3].
>
> Michael's Signed-off-by: should then appear on all patches, with a
> mention of the extra changes that he made, e.g.
>
> Signed-off-by: Keno Fischer <keno@juliacomputing.com>
> [Michael Roitzsch: - rebased for NixOS
>                    - some other change]
> Signed-off-by: Michael Roitzsch <reactorcontrol@icloud.com>
>
> If no changes were made, you still need to add a Signed-off-by: tag.
>
> [2] https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
> [3]
> http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/Documentation/SubmittingPatches?id=f6f94e2ab1b33f0082ac22d71f66385a60d8157f#n297
>
> > Additionally, I have run the patches through checkpatch.pl and adjusted
> coding
> > style accordingly (with the exception of ignoring warnings about avoid
>
> Good ! If you have an account on gitlab, you can also push a branch there.
> It will be submitted to gitlab CI and maybe give you the opportunity to
> polish the patches some more before submission.
>
> > architecture specific defines in hw/9pfs/9p-util-darwin.c, where they
> seem
> > unavoidable), and have signed off on those modified commits.
> >
>
> As explained above, your Signed-off-by: is also needed in all patches,
> even if you didn't change them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> --
> Greg
>
> >
> >
>
>