Re: [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: arm64: bcmbca: Add Zyxel EX3510-B based on BCM4906

[Sam Edwards]

On Sat, Oct 5, 2024 at 1:54 AM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On 04/10/2024 19:21, Sam Edwards wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 3, 2024 at 11:51 PM Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 04/10/2024 08:49, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> >>> On Thu, Oct 03, 2024 at 03:08:19PM -0700, Sam Edwards wrote:
> >>>> This is a series (EX3510-B0 and EX3510-B1) of residential gateways based
> >>>> on BCM4906, a stripped-down version of the BCM4908 SoC. Although Zyxel's
> >>>> marketing materials call this a "series," the EX3510-B1 appears to be a
> >>>> very minor revision of the EX3510-B0, with only changes that are
> >>>> transparent to software. As far as Linux is concerned, this "series"
> >>>> effectively represents a single model.
> >>>>
> >>>> Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > Good day Krzysztof,
> >
> >>>
> >>> Can you use the same email as for SoB?
> >
> > I have sent patches to the LKML from a work email before, but I just
>
> That's not what I asked. You can send them from whatever, I asked that
> commit identity should match SoB in exact way.
>
>
> > double-checked that I am using my personal email for everything here:
> >
> > $ git show ec8e6d96a05f04 | grep -E 'dt-bindings|Author|Signed'
> > Author: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> >     dt-bindings: arm64: bcmbca: Add Zyxel EX3510-B based on BCM4906
> >     Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> > $ grep -E '^From|^Signed'
> > outgoing-ex3510b/0001-dt-bindings-arm64-bcmbca-Add-Zyxel-EX3510-B-based-on.patch
> > From ec8e6d96a05f04df00d05dec00df80172d233d8c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> > From: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> > Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>

Greetings Krzysztof,

> So apply the patch from the mailing list and you will see:
>
> Author: Sam Edwards <cfsworks@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Sam Edwards <CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>

Looks fine to me, those are both set to my personal (non-work)
account. The only difference I'm seeing is that the capitalization in
my email address is being discarded in the author field, but in light
of the case-insensitive nature of email addresses: these are an exact
match.

Still, I was interested to see what was affecting the capitalization
in one field but not the other, so I did some digging. To answer your
previous question: they can differ because they are transported in
different ways. Evidently git-am considers a few headers in the email
envelope significant (e.g. Subject/From/Date) by default. The
envelope's "From:" is what specifies the patch author, while the
Signed-off-by tag is just part of the message body. The envelope is
unfortunately fair game for modification by various MTAs, which would
explain why my patches aren't arriving with my 'From:' email address
capitalization intact. When I have time, I'd like to look into what
specific hop in the mail path is doing that. Hopefully it's something
I can reconfigure, but it might also be out of my hands.

Is there some other difference you're noticing that's too subtle for
me to spot? Or is it indeed the capitalization that's the key issue
here? If the latter, I want to understand why it's important so I can
see if there’s a way to work around it, or if we need to consider
other options for getting patches delivered in the preferred format in
the future.

COMMITTER: In light of the above, could you kindly add this flag to
git-am to fix the capitalization issue: --author="Sam Edwards
<CFSworks@xxxxxxxxx>"

>
> Best regards,
> Krzysztof

Have a relaxing weekend,
Sam