Date:   Thu, 30 Dec 2021 01:00:22 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To:     Alexander Lobakin <alexandr.lobakin@intel.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 00/15] Function Granular KASLR
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On Mon, Dec 27, 2021 at 07:33:18PM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2021 22:38:14 -0800
> 
> > On Thu, Dec 23, 2021 at 01:21:54AM +0100, Alexander Lobakin wrote:
> > > This is a massive rework and a respin of Kristen Accardi's marvellous
> > > FG-KASLR series (v5).
> > 
> > Here would be the place to explain what this series actually does and
> > why it is marvellous.
> 
> As I took this project over from another developer/team, I decided
> to preserve the original cover letter and append it to the end of
> mine, as well as to keep most of the original code in the separate
> commits from mine.
> For sure I could redo this if needed, is it really so?

A cover letter needs to explain what you're doing for the reader.
No one is going to page forever to look for that.