Re: [RFC PATCH v1 01/50] IB/qib: Delete struct qib_ivdev.qp_rnd

[Jason Gunthorpe]

On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 04:43:33PM +0000, George Spelvin wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 30, 2020 at 02:28:08PM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> > Also, if you do send a series, *please* add a cover-letter explaining
> > what the overall purpose of the series is, and have all patches chained
> > in-reply-to that rather than patch 1. Otherwise reviewers have to
> > reverse-engineer the intent of the author.
> > 
> > You can generate the cover letter with:
> > 
> > $ git format-patch --cover $FROM..$TO
> > 
> > ... and IIRC git send-email does the right thing by default if you hand
> > it all of the patches at once.
> 
> Er, I *did* send a cover letter.  Cc:ed to the union of everyone
> Cc:ed on any of the individual patches.  It's appended.  (I left in
> the full Cc: list so you can see you're on it.)
> 
> My problem is I don't have git on my e-mail machine, so I fed them to 
> sendmail manually, and that does some strange things.

The problem is that none of the patches had a in-reply-to header to
the cover letter so it is very difficult to find it.

Things work best if you can use git send-email :) I've never tried it,
bu I wonder if you can tell git that the sendmail is 'ssh foo-server
/usr/bin/sendmail' ?

Jason