Re: [PATCH v9 1/8] ARM: aurora-l2: add prefix to MAX_RANGE_SIZE

[Chris Packham]

On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 22:07 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 08:56:05PM +0000, Chris Packham wrote:
> > On Tue, 2019-08-27 at 10:13 +0100, Russell King - ARM Linux admin
> > wrote:
> > > Just send the single patch to the patch tracker - having it against
> > > 5.3-rc is fine (I don't think anything has changed for a long time
> > > with that file.)
> > 
> > Done 
> > https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/viewpatch.php?id=8902/1
> > 
> > I'm still not entirely sure what to put for the KernelVersion tag. In
> > hindsight think I misinterpreted your comment above and set it to 5.3rc
> > (where you meant a series based on 5.3-rcX should apply cleanly). It
> > probably should have been next or master because it's way past the
> > merge window for 5.3.
> 
> Think about it as "which kernel version was _this_ patch generated
> against" - it's a guide for me to know which kernel version it
> should be applied to.  The nearest Linus release (rc or final) is
> generally sufficient.
> 
> If it doesn't apply to my current base, then I might check out that
> version, apply it there, and then merge it in, resolving any
> conflicts during the merge.
> 
> It started off with a different purpose: when we had the older
> development system, such as the 2.x series kernels, we would have
> even x being the current stable kernels, and concurrently we'd
> also have x+1 as the development series.  When someone sent me a
> patch back then, it was important to know which kernel series it
> was meant for.
> 
> I decided not to get rid of it because it provides useful
> information when patches don't apply, and gives more options
> than me just discarding the patch with a comment saying it
> doesn't apply.
> 

Thanks for the info. So 5.3-rc is not as wrong as I thought it was.

One could even summarize the above as.

  git format-patch --add-header \
      "KernelVersion: $(git describe --abbrev=0 HEAD)"