Re: [PATCH 0/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Function name cleanup series 1

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 09:37:47PM -0700, Tree Davies wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 08:48:28AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 24, 2023 at 11:37:13PM -0700, Tree Davies wrote:
> > > Rename functions to fix checkpatch warning: Avoid CamelCase
> > > 
> > > Tree Davies (5):
> > >   Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function ActivateBAEntry
> > >   Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function DeActivateBAEntry
> > >   Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function TxTsDeleteBA
> > >   Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function RxTsDeleteBA
> > >   Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function ResetBaEntry
> > > 
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_BAProc.c | 44 +++++++++++------------
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtl819x_TSProc.c |  6 ++--
> > >  drivers/staging/rtl8192e/rtllib.h         |  2 +-
> > >  3 files changed, 26 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-)
> > 
> > Odd, how did you send these patches?  They are not properly "threaded"
> > or "connected" such that if you look them up on lore.kernel.org, or in
> > your email client, they show that they should be connected.
> > 
> > Here's what they look like in my inbox right now:
> > 
> > 
> >    1   T Jul 24 Tree Davies     (0.6K) [PATCH 0/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Function name cleanup series 1
> >    2 N T Jul 24 Tree Davies     (1.9K) [PATCH 3/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function TxTsDeleteBA
> >    3   F Jul 25 To linux-kernel (  29) [PATCH v2] Documentation: embargoed-hardware-issues.rst: add AMD to the list
> >    4 N T Jul 24 Tree Davies     (2.5K) [PATCH 5/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function ResetBaEntry
> >    5 N T Jul 24 Tree Davies     (1.8K) [PATCH 4/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function RxTsDeleteBA
> >    6 N T Jul 24 Tree Davies     (3.1K) [PATCH 2/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function DeActivateBAEntry
> >    7 N T Jul 24 Tree Davies     (1.7K) [PATCH 1/5] Staging: rtl8192e: Rename function ActivateBAEntry
> > 
> > While if I look at a different recent series sent for staging patches, send
> > correctly, they look like:
> > 
> >  372   T Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (0.9K) [PATCH 0/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Fix checkpatch issues
> >  373   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (0.8K) ├─>[PATCH 9/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Fix comparison to false
> >  374   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (7.2K) ├─>[PATCH 8/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Add preferred spaces
> >  375   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (2.2K) ├─>[PATCH 7/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Fix alignment on open parenthesis
> >  376   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe ( 10K) ├─>[PATCH 6/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Remove unnecessary parentheses
> >  377   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (5.9K) ├─>[PATCH 5/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Remove unnecessary blank lines
> >  378   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (4.1K) ├─>[PATCH 4/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Remove multiple blank lines
> >  379   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (1.0K) ├─>[PATCH 3/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Fix block comment alignment
> >  380   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (0.9K) ├─>[PATCH 2/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Fix code indent
> >  381   C Jul 22 Franziska Naepe (0.9K) └─>[PATCH 1/9] staging: rtl8723bs: ioctl_linux: Fix else on next line
> > 
> > 
> > See the difference with the -> and such?  No other messages in the middle of
> > the thread, and they are all connected together so that our tools can handle
> > them as a series, not as individual patches.
> > 
> > If you use 'git send-email' to send the whole back of patches at once, they
> > will be properly connected together, so I do recommend using that if you are
> > starting out.
> > 
> > Please fix up and try again, thanks.
> > 
> > greg k-h
> 
> Greg,
> I got git send-email working. Do I send this series as a v2, even though the 
> patches are the same, and how I send them is 'the change'?

Yes.

> The last commit I see in linux-next for rtl8192e is 4a22870cede374d80c5d2f9c5b79253a5a667832.
> Can I send patches from that state?

Sure, or just work off of my staging.git tree with the staging-next
branch.

thanks,

greg k-h