Re: [PATCH v7 00/25] Unify vDSOs across more architectures

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-10-25T11:42:27Z

Hi Catalin,

On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 4:51 PM Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 03:23:46PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Mon, Jun 24, 2019 at 04:18:28PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > > I talked to Russell King and he suggested to file the ARM parts into his
> > > patch system and he'll pick them up after 5.3-rc1.
> > >
> > > https://www.arm.linux.org.uk/developer/patches/
> > >
> > > I paged out how to deal with it, but you'll surely manage :)
> >
> > Easy way: ask git to add the "KernelVersion" tag as a header to the
> > email using --add-header to e.g. git format-patch, and just mail them
> > to patches@armlinux.org.uk
>
> Although I haven't send patches to Russell in a while, I still have a
> git alias in my .gitconfig (only works with one patch at a time IIRC,
> sending multiple patches may arrive in a different order):
>
> [alias]
> send-rmk-email = !git send-email --add-header=\"KernelVersion: $(git describe --abbrev=0)\" --no-thread --suppress-cc=all --to="patches@arm.linux.org.uk"

Doesn't seem to work: no header was added, and my patch was rejected.
There does seem to be a "--add-header" option for git-format-patch, but
it adds the header at the top, just below the "Subject:"-header, instead
of below the "---", so that needs manual editing, too.

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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