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From: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@grid-net.com>
To: <rdunlap@xenotime.net>, <linux-doc@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	<snijsure@grid-net.com>
Subject: [PATCH] Recommend correct way to submit new version of the patches.
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2012 14:51:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1335390717-32165-1-git-send-email-snijsure@grid-net.com> (raw)

Russell King suggested proper way to submit new versions of the patches.
See http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2012-April/096236.html
Modify SubmittingPatches to summerize that recommendation.

Signed-off-by: Subodh Nijsure <snijsure@grid-net.com>
---
 Documentation/SubmittingPatches |   12 ++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index 4468ce2..4b166a4 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -579,6 +579,18 @@ use diffstat options "-p 1 -w 70" so that filenames are listed from
 the top of the kernel source tree and don't use too much horizontal
 space (easily fit in 80 columns, maybe with some indentation).
 
+Please don't thread the posting of a new version of the patches to
+the previous posting of the older version.  In other words, the
+initial summary mail for Vn should not be threaded to the Vn-1
+series, and the individual patches for Vn should only be threaded
+to the initial summary mail for Vn. This is to avoid one massive
+thread for a proposed patch.
+
+If you wish to provide a direct reference back to a previous thread,
+please do so via URLs into archives, or providing the message id or
+exact subject of the previous series in the new summary message body.
+But please don't thread each version to the previous version!
+
 See more details on the proper patch format in the following
 references.
 
-- 
1.7.5.4


             reply	other threads:[~2012-04-25 21:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-25 21:51 Subodh Nijsure [this message]
2012-04-26 16:43 ` Rob Landley
2012-04-26 18:02   ` Subodh Nijsure
2012-04-27  3:39     ` Rob Landley

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