Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/50] IB/qib: Delete struct qib_ivdev.qp_rnd

[Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 01:49:12PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 04:43:33PM +0000, George Spelvin wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > > Also, if you do send a series, *please* add a cover-letter explaining
> > > what the overall purpose of the series is, and have all patches chained
> > > in-reply-to that rather than patch 1. Otherwise reviewers have to
> > > reverse-engineer the intent of the author.
> > >
> > > You can generate the cover letter with:
> > >
> > > $ git format-patch --cover $FROM..$TO
> > >
> > > ... and IIRC git send-email does the right thing by default if you hand
> > > it all of the patches at once.
> >
> > Er, I *did* send a cover letter.  Cc:ed to the union of everyone
> > Cc:ed on any of the individual patches.  It's appended.  (I left in
> > the full Cc: list so you can see you're on it.)
> >
> > My problem is I don't have git on my e-mail machine, so I fed them to
> > sendmail manually, and that does some strange things.
>
> The problem is that none of the patches had a in-reply-to header to
> the cover letter so it is very difficult to find it.
>
> Things work best if you can use git send-email :) I've never tried it,
> bu I wonder if you can tell git that the sendmail is 'ssh foo-server
> /usr/bin/sendmail' ?

I don't know if it is possible to do directly, but such feature is
achievable through custom script.

I'm doing it to be able to send emails with git-send-email in offline
mode too.

In my .gitconfig:
 28 [sendemail]
 29         smtpserver = /usr/local/bin/msmtp-enqueue.sh

Thanks

>
> Jason