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Date:   Mon, 30 Mar 2020 14:28:08 +0100
From:   Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
To:     George Spelvin <lkml@SDF.ORG>
Cc:     Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
        Dennis Dalessandro <dennis.dalessandro@intel.com>,
        Mike Marciniszyn <mike.marciniszyn@intel.com>,
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/50] IB/qib: Delete struct qib_ivdev.qp_rnd
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On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 04:08:25PM +0000, George Spelvin wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 11:17:10AM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > You need to do a better job sending your patches, this is not
> > threaded, and not cc'd to linux-rdma, so it doesn't show in the
> > patchworks.
> 
> Indeed; mea culpa.  I forgot the magic option to git-format-patch.
> 
> Unfortunately, such things tend to get noticed only after the e-mail
> has been sent and one has embarrassed oneself publicly.  :-(
> 
> > In general, do not send such large series for things that are not
> > connected. Send small cleanups like this properly and directly so they
> > can be applied.
> 
> They're all concpetually connected, but yes.

Also, if you do send a series, *please* add a cover-letter explaining
what the overall purpose of the series is, and have all patches chained
in-reply-to that rather than patch 1. Otherwise reviewers have to
reverse-engineer the intent of the author.

You can generate the cover letter with:

$ git format-patch --cover $FROM..$TO

... and IIRC git send-email does the right thing by default if you hand
it all of the patches at once.

Thanks,
Mark.