From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753309AbaIOH10 (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:27:26 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46880 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752902AbaIOH1Z (ORCPT ); Mon, 15 Sep 2014 03:27:25 -0400 Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 00:27:21 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Rob Jones Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@codethink.co.uk Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] fs: proc: use seq_open_private() Message-Id: <20140915002721.347ad066.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <54169389.6060608@codethink.co.uk> References: <1410530978-29627-1-git-send-email-rob.jones@codethink.co.uk> <20140912145019.9e1665011c2d2e9bcb55f0c1@linux-foundation.org> <54169389.6060608@codethink.co.uk> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.7.1 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 15 Sep 2014 08:21:45 +0100 Rob Jones wrote: > On 12/09/14 22:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Sep 2014 15:09:36 +0100 Rob Jones wrote: > > > >> fs: proc: use __seq_open_private() > >> fs: proc: use __seq_open_private() > > > > See the problem? We have two different patches, both named the same. > > Always another gotcha! :-) > > Seriously, does it say anywhere that patch names have to be unique? It > makes perfect sense when it's pointed out but it never occurred to me. Not explicitly as far as I know. Documentation/SubmittingPatches implies it. Search for "unique".