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Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface
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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:19:17 +0200
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On 10/01/15 18:11, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 10/01/2015 10:03 AM, Eric Blake wrote:
>> [meta-comment]
>>
>> On 10/01/2015 06:14 AM, Marc Marí wrote:
>>> Implementation of the FW CFG DMA interface.
>>
>> The subject line is missing "v4" and "0/7". Also, the cover letter is
>> missing a diffstat.  That makes it harder to see from the cover letter
>> what the rest of the series is about.  'git format-patch/send-email
>> --cover-letter' does what you want; you can even 'git config
>> format.coverletter=auto' to always include a decent cover letter on any
>> multi-patch series.
> 
> Oh, I see - you sent a meta-cover letter (the one I replied to in this
> subthread), and then a patch series including a cover letter (the real
> 0/7, then 1/7 and friends in-reply-to the 0/7) as a child of the
> meta-cover.  It's still a bit awkward for tools that expect the 0/7 as
> the start of the thread,

Yep, the pattern I just described doesn't consider those tools. Is that
a bad problem? Maybe the pattern is not so clever then. :)

(I'm allowed to say bad things about it, because I "invented" it
"independently". :))

> and part of my confusion was caused by
> out-of-order mail delivery due to the nongnu.org mail server still
> recovering from its mail delays.
> 

Right, those delays are not helping.

Thanks
Laszlo