From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756745AbbJAQfD (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:35:03 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:33398 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753537AbbJAQfA (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2015 12:35:00 -0400 Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU fw_cfg DMA interface To: Eric Blake , =?UTF-8?Q?Marc_Mar=c3=ad?= , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, qemu-devel@nongnu.org, seabios@seabios.org References: <1443701677-13629-1-git-send-email-markmb@redhat.com> <560D5945.5050700@redhat.com> <560D5C7E.8080900@redhat.com> <560D5DA1.90607@redhat.com> Cc: Mark Rutland , Rob Herring , Drew , Arnd Bergmann , devicetree@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Hajnoczi , Alexander Graf , "Kevin O'Connor" , Gerd Hoffmann From: Laszlo Ersek Message-ID: <560D60B0.5000902@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 18:34:56 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <560D5DA1.90607@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/01/15 18:21, Eric Blake wrote: > On 10/01/2015 10:17 AM, Laszlo Ersek wrote: >> On 10/01/15 18:03, 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. >>> >> >> This posting follows a little bit different pattern, one that I myself >> follow when posting patches for two (or more) components that must work >> in sync. > > Ok, makes sense. Maybe the only additional suggestions would be to make > it more obvious in the subject line (put the text 'cross-post' > somewhere?) or have the first paragraph of the meta-cover be more > explicit that there are going to be multiple sub-threads, one per > project, where all subthreads must be applied to their corresponding > project for the overall feature to be complete? That's a good idea. I think prefixing the main blurb's subject with [cross-post], and a "standard" first paragraph based on your above suggestion, would be helpful. > [And maybe I should wait a few minutes for the full thread to appear in > my inbox, rather than immediately replying to the first mail while the > series is still incomplete due to mail delays...] I'm not patient; it would be unfair from me to expect others to be... :) Laszlo