Re: [PATCH v2 0/1] docs: examples of pages affected by C API signature overflow
From: Jonathan Corbet
Date: Mon Mar 23 2026 - 09:49:46 EST
"Rito Rhymes" <rito@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Thank you for the feedback.
>
> I'll put some examples in the changelogs with versioned URLs and
> reroll them without a cover letter.
>
>> The cover letter tells reviewers what the series as a whole does
>
> Admittedly, I knew including a cover letter for a single patch was
> non-standard. Given the quantity of examples I aimed to include,
> I didn't think it acceptable to include it all in the changelog, but I
> knew having the examples was important for testing, so I repurposed the
> cover letter as the vehicle for including them. I'll lay off that.
If you want to include extra information for reviewers that doesn't
belong in the changelog, you can put it below the "---" line and it will
be stripped out at application time.
Thanks,
jon