Re: [PATCH] drm/format_helper: fix a kernel-doc typo

[Randy Dunlap]

On 4/4/22 23:26, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> On 4/5/22 08:12, Simon Ser wrote:
>> On Monday, April 4th, 2022 at 23:35, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>> On 4/4/22 09:04, Simon Ser wrote:
>>>
>>>> Both doc patches pushed, thanks. I had to manually edit them because they
>>>> wouldn't apply cleanly. Next time, please use git-send-email (see
>>>> https://git-send-email.io/ for setup instructions).
>>>
>>> That's odd. I did use 'git send-email' and I don't usually have any
>>> problems (AFAIK). I'll check those setup instructions.
>>
>> Hm, maybe the issue isn't git-send-email, but the way the patch was
>> generated? I had to manually edit these lines for the first patch to work:
>>
>>     --- linux-next-20211217.orig/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>     +++ linux-next-20211217/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>
>> I changed these to:
>>
>>     --- a/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>     +++ b/include/drm/drm_file.h
>>
>> This wasn't enough for the second patch, I had to re-do the changes by hand
>> from scratch.
>>
> 
> Yes, I believe the suggestion should be to use git-format-patch instead.
> 
> To make sure that was is posted can be consumed by the git-am command.

Considering that I am not using git, I think it will be difficult
to use git-format-patch.

(git-send-email is independent of git.)

Still, this is the first time in many years that I have heard
of this problem.

Thanks for the info and insights.

-- 
~Randy