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From:   Rob Herring <robh@kernel.org>
To:     Luca Weiss <luca.weiss@fairphone.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] scsi: dt-bindings: ufs: qcom: Fix warning for sdm845
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On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 10:19:09AM +0200, Luca Weiss wrote:
> On Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 9:41 AM CEST, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> > On 26/06/2023 08:38, Luca Weiss wrote:
> > >>>> but I guess no resends and it can be superseded.
> > >>>
> > >>> Right, the patches got reviews but was never applied... I really need to
> > >>> find a strategy to keep track of sent patches until they're applied with
> > >>> my work mailbox, it's not the first time that a patch has gotten
> > >>> forgotten.
> > >>
> > >> There was an error reported on the above series. Why would it be 
> > >> applied?
> > > 
> > > The error report at [0] complains about reg-names but I'm quite sure
> > > that patch 2/3 resolves this error. Does your bot only apply one patch
> > > at a time and run the check or apply all of them and then run it? It's
> > > been a while but I'm fairly sure I ran all of the checks before sending
> > > since I also documented some other patches in the cover letter there.
> >
> > You did it in cover letter, not in the patch, so there is no dependency
> > for bots recorded.
> 
> I'm not aware how to put extra comments into a patch in a series with
> b4, at least last time I checked I don't think it was possible? But I
> also thought the cover letter was exactly there for giving some
> background of the series and documenting any dependencies on other
> patches.

I just put a '---' line and comments after that in the commit messages. 
That works fine unless your git branch is going upstream directly (i.e. 
via a pull request). Even when I apply my own patches, I get them from 
lore and apply so the comments are dropped.

Rob