On Thursday, January 08, 2015 at 07:19:35 PM, Nable wrote:
Hi!
You can use [PATCH RESEND], which is probably much clearer in expressing the intent. You might add a short note just before the diffstat saying that you only updated the SoB line and author to match the real deal, but didn't change the patch contents.
I've edited my patch and it's still applies on to top HEAD of master branch, so I've sent fixed version to mailing list.
Thanks!
Thank you for mentioning this idea of commentaries before diffstat output, I've never heard about it.
It's mostly useful to save reviewers the time figuring out what changed in the patch and such message never propagates into the applied patch in the tree :)
You can read [1] for the finer points of patch submission process, but TL;DR it's pretty much the same as Linux ;-)
Sounds like a nice joke! In fact, I'm doing my first steps in open-source software, so sending patches to Linux is something like a far dream. But if I reach that stage someday, then I'll be able to say that it's "pretty much the same as for U-Boot".
Heh, everyone's been there at some point. Good luck and have fun :)
[1] http://www.denx.de/wiki/U-Boot/Patches#General_Patch_Submission_Rules
I've studied [1] yesterday, and looked through it again today, so I hope that I'm doing everything in a right way this time.
Yeah, no worries. You'll quickly get the hang of it and someone will remind you in case you screw up bigtime anyway ;-)
Best regards, Marek Vasut