Re: [PATCH] drm/format_helper: fix a kernel-doc typo

[Javier Martinez Canillas <javierm@redhat.com>]

On 4/5/22 08:12, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Monday, April 4th, 2022 at 23:35, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 4/4/22 09:04, Simon Ser wrote:
>>
>>> Both doc patches pushed, thanks. I had to manually edit them because they
>>> wouldn't apply cleanly. Next time, please use git-send-email (see
>>> https://git-send-email.io/ for setup instructions).
>>
>> That's odd. I did use 'git send-email' and I don't usually have any
>> problems (AFAIK). I'll check those setup instructions.
> 
> Hm, maybe the issue isn't git-send-email, but the way the patch was
> generated? I had to manually edit these lines for the first patch to work:
> 
>     --- linux-next-20211217.orig/include/drm/drm_file.h
>     +++ linux-next-20211217/include/drm/drm_file.h
> 
> I changed these to:
> 
>     --- a/include/drm/drm_file.h
>     +++ b/include/drm/drm_file.h
> 
> This wasn't enough for the second patch, I had to re-do the changes by hand
> from scratch.
>

Yes, I believe the suggestion should be to use git-format-patch instead.

To make sure that was is posted can be consumed by the git-am command.

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Best regards,

Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat