Re: [PATCH net-next v3 2/7] net: dsa: mv88e6xxx: pass directly chip structure to mv88e6xxx_phy_is_internal

[Andrew Lunn]

On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 04:46:35PM +0200, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
> Hello Russell,
> 
> On 5/24/23 15:18, Russell King (Oracle) wrote:
> > On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 03:01:22PM +0200, Alexis Lothoré wrote:
> >> Since this function is a simple helper, we do not need to pass a full
> >> dsa_switch structure, we can directly pass the mv88e6xxx_chip structure.
> >> Doing so will allow to share this function with any other function
> >> not manipulating dsa_switch structure but needing info about number of
> >> internal phys
> >>
> >> Reviewed-by: Russell King (Oracle) <rmk+kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> Reviewed-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@xxxxxxxxx>
> >>
> >> ---
> >> Changes since v2:
> >> - add reviewed-by tags
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Alexis Lothoré <alexis.lothore@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> >> ---
> > 
> > It never ceases to amaze me the way human beings can find creative ways
> > to mess things up, no matter how well things are documented. The above
> > commit message (and the others that I've looked at) are all broken
> > because of this creativity.
> > 
> > In effect, because of the really weird format you've come up with here,
> > your patches are in effect *not* signed off by you.
> 
> Sorry for that. This was an attempt to provide relevant changelog for each
> patch, but obviously the way I stored those changelogs was wrong, and I did not
> catch the consequent broken Signed-off-by lines after re-generating the series.
> I'll do as suggested and hold off a bit before fixing/re-sending.

You can put the changelog in the commit message in git commit, you
just need to add the correct --- separate after the tags. The patch
created with git format-patch will then have two ---, but that is not
a problem.

    Andrew

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