Re: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] mm/damon: reposting three reviewed patches

[SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org>]

On Thu, 21 May 2026 17:57:53 -0700 Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 19 May 2026 18:20:58 -0700 SeongJae Park <sj@kernel.org> wrote:
> 
> > Subject: [PATCH RESEND 0/3] mm/damon: reposting three reviewed patches
> > 
> > ...
> >
> > This series reposts patches that were reviewed by the DAMON maintainer
> > but not yet added to mm-new, for more visibility.  From their last
> > posted versions, only minor changes including commit subject update,
> > Reviewed-by: and Acked-by: tags collection, and rebasing to latest
> > mm-new were made by the DAMON maintainer.
> 
> fwiw, I don't think the Subject or the text are appropriate/useful for
> the long-term upstream kernel record.  It's all short-term
> development-time info which is best kept below the "---" separator and
> discarded for the permanent record.

I agree.  I was also wondering what subject and commit message should be given
here, because the original authors didn't meant to send these as one series.
So I was assuming you may simply drop the cover letter and made this ridiculous
one.

> 
> I rewrote the Subject: to "mm/damon: documentation and comment fixes"
> and left the [0/N] cover-leter empty.

This makes sense and seems better to me.  I will do similar in future.


Thanks,
SJ