Format of patches (was: [PATCH 1/2] speedstep-smi: enable interrupts when waiting)

[Mikulas Patocka]

On Thu, 15 May 2014, Viresh Kumar wrote:

> On 14 May 2014 19:54, Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Hi Viresh
> >
> > Some times ago, I sent these two cpufreq patches to fix frequency
> > transition problem on speedstep-smi, but you didn't put them to the
> > upstream kernel. I am resending the patches. If you would like a different
> > solution to this problem, please explain it.
> 
> Probably these are just missed by Rafael. The patches are fine but the
> above paragraph you wrote would get into kernel logs and must have
> been placed below the three dash lines: "---"

I used "---" in the past, but some people complained that their script 
picks the text above "---" and ignores the text below "---" - thus, it 
does exactly the opposite of what it should do.

I don't know what kind of delimiter should I use. Suppose that I want to 
send something like this:




Hi, here I'm sending some cool stuff.

***

The message that goes to git.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@xxxxxxxxxx>

---
 drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-lib.c |    3 +++
 drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c |   12 ++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

Index: linux-3.14-rc1/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c
===================================================================
--- linux-3.14-rc1.orig/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c 2014-02-03 
18:56:44.000000000 +0100
+++ linux-3.14-rc1/drivers/cpufreq/speedstep-smi.c      2014-02-03 
19:06:21.000000000 +0100
... the patch.




Now - I'm asking - what kind of barrier should I use between "Hi, here I'm 
sending some cool stuff" and "The message that goes to git"? I don't 
really know. The file Documentation/SubmittingPatches doesn't explain it, 
it says that the message for git should go at the top of the email. If I 
want the person who receives the patch to read "Hi, here I'm sending some 
cool stuff" first, I need to put it at the beginning of the email.

Maybe we should define a new barrier for this purpose, put it to 
Documentation/SubmittingPatches and update the scripts?

Mikulas
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