On Mon, 22 Dec 2025 12:32:16 +0800 Chunyu Hu chuhu@redhat.com wrote:
On Sun, Dec 21, 2025 at 10:57:09AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 12:00:21 +0800 Chunyu Hu chuhu@redhat.com wrote:
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According to the doc below, I don't add the cover letter, not sure if cover letter is preferred, and if that's the case, the doc need an update.
Funnily enough, your series was in the exact format which I use when committing patch series. Usually people put the cover letter in a separate [0/N] email and I move that into the [1/N] patch's changelog, as you've done here.
yes, I see cover-letter is the actualy way people is using and looks like I did some of your work putting that cover letter into the first patch. I think I'll add cover-letter in the future.
God does that still exist? Pretty soon it will be able to legally drink in bars.
I think its content got absorbed into a Documentation/ file a long time ago!
I happened to open it before I submitting my patch, and wanted to know what would happen if I follow that. And it looks like cover letter has become the actual convention.
I think you could use Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst instead. The html version is also available at https://origin.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html
Thanks, SJ
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