Re: [PATCH v4 1/6] staging: octeon: clean up the octeon ethernet driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 04:38:32PM +0200, Nam Cao wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 09:39:14AM -0400, Oliver Crumrine wrote:
> > Make the octeon ethernet driver better adhere to the
> > kernel coding standard
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Oliver Crumrine <ozlinux@hotmail.com>
> > ---
> > v2: Actually send the patch set properly
> > v3: Fixed a bug where I forgot to change all instances of a struct
> > v4: Actually fix that bug (this is my first patch, give me a break)
> 
> Don't give up! You will get it right eventually.
> 
> This is not important, but I prefer you revert the order of the change log.
> The changes compared to the last version is most relevant, so preferably they
> should be put on top.

Either way is fine, this isn't an issue.

What _is_ an issue is that all of these have the identical subject line,
and the identical changelog text _yet_ they do different things.

Oliver, please read read the section entitled "The canonical patch
format" in the kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst
for a description of how to do properly.

thanks,

greg k-h