Re: [PATCH v2 0/8] Fix checkpatch.pl issues

[Madhumthia Prabakaran <madhumithabiw@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Mar 03, 2019 at 09:09:15AM +0100, Greg KH wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 02, 2019 at 12:34:42PM -0600, Madhumitha Prabakaran wrote:
> > These patches fix warnings of line over 80 characters, comment style
> > issues of SPDX License Identifier and remove unnecessary blank line.
> > 
> > Madhumitha Prabakaran (8):
> >   Staging: vt6655: card.h: Fix line over 80 character
> >   Staging: vt6655: card.h: Fix line over 80 characters
> >   Staging: vt6655: device.h: Fix comment style of SPDX License Identifier
> >   Staging: vt6655: device_cfg.h: Fix comment style of SPDX License Identifer
> >   Staging: vt6655: dpc.h: Fix comment style of SPDX License Identifier
> >   Staging: vt6655: key.h: Fix comment style of SPDX License Identifier
> >   Staging: vt6655: mac.c: Remove unnecessary blank line
> >   Staging: vt6655: mac.h: Fix comment style of SPDX License Identifier
> 
> Again, does not match the subject lines :(
> 
> Perhaps if you typed out here _exactly_ what you did to create this
> cover letter, and send them off to us, it might help in determining what
> you did wrong.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h

Thanks

Task: commit patchsets, which contains two patches

1. git log --pretty=oneline --abbrev-commit 

8f8d8bbad6bc (HEAD -> staging-testing) Staging: vt6655: Fix ...
f68b96b7f7f5 Staging: vt6655: Fix comment ...

08b9bee66e3e (origin/staging-testing, origin/staging-next) ...

2. Format-patch 

git format-patch -o /tmp/three/ --cover-letter -n --thread=shallow --cc="madhumithabiw@gmail.com" f68b96b7f7f5^..8f8d8bbad6bc

/tmp/three/0000-cover-letter.patch
/tmp/three/0001-Staging-vt6655-Fix-comment-style-of-SPDX-License-Ide.patch
/tmp/three/0002-Staging-vt6655-Fix-comment-style-of-SPDX-License-Ide.patch

3. Format patch for versioning 

git format-patch -n --subject-prefix="PATCH v2" --cover-letter

On executing this, my subject prefix never changed. I assume, this is the issues. As this creates same version of subject line and clubs all version into same conversation. 

4. I manually edit the vim /tmp/three/0000-cover-letter.patch

5. Edited the 'SUBJECT HERE'  and 'BLURB HERE'. Here too I noticed that the subject prefix never changed.. So i tried to edit it manually.
   I tried to change subject prefix for all the three files manually

6. After that I tried using mutt and git to send files 

For git I used 
git send-email --to-cover --cc-cover /tmp/three/*.patch

For mutt I used 
mutt -H /tmp/third/0000......patch
For all three files I individually sent  it via mutt

Referred: 1. https://kernelnewbies.org/Outreachyfirstpatch
          2. https://kernelnewbies.org/PatchSeries

Thanks,

Madhumitha