From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756204AbcKJX1V (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:27:21 -0500 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([184.105.139.130]:41942 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750979AbcKJX1T (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:27:19 -0500 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2016 18:27:12 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <20161110.182712.788368709077727153.davem@davemloft.net> To: vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, karl.volz@oracle.com, rob.gardner@oracle.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] sparc64: Set cpu state to offline when stopped From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1478817816-98939-1-git-send-email-vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com> References: <1478817816-98939-1-git-send-email-vijay.ac.kumar@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.7 on Emacs 25.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.12 (shards.monkeyblade.net [149.20.54.216]); Thu, 10 Nov 2016 14:27:47 -0800 (PST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org When submitting a series of patches, you must always provide a cover posting. This posting has Subject of the form: Subject: [PATCH 0/NN] Toplevel description. And the body of the message explains what the patch series as a whole does, why it is doing it, and how it is doing it.