Re: [Xen-devel] [Resend][PATCH 01/17] rb_tree: reorganize code in rb_erase() for additional changes

[Praveen Kumar <kpraveen.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2017-06-01 at 10:01 +0200, Dario Faggioli wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-05-31 at 23:56 +0100, Andrew Cooper wrote:
> > 
> > As an example, see
> > 
> > http://xenbits.xen.org/gitweb/?p=xen.git;a=commitdiff;h=b01c2fb5834
> > ae
> > a0328db55c310caa34173021d3d
> > 
> Nice, I especially like how the changelog looks, i.e.:
>  - original Linux patch description description
>  - Linux's Signed-off-by, Reviewed-by, Acked-by, etc.
>  - ref to Linux commit id
>  - a line with "Ported to Xen."
>  - author of the port's Signed-off-by
>  - (Reviewed-by, Acked-by, etc. coming from xen-devel)
> 
> Praveen, I suggest using the same pattern (if you also like it, of
> course :-D).
> 
Thanks Andrew for sharing the information.

Yes, liked it too. Will incorporate the changes and share updated
patch. Will try to do dry-run as suggested.

> Using patch 1 as an example, that would mean the following:
> 
>   Subject: [PATCH 01/17] rb_tree: reorganize code in rb_erase()
> for additional changes
> 
>   First, move some code around in order to make the next change more 
>   obvious.
> 
>   [akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx: coding-style fixes]
>   Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@xxxxxxxxx>
>   Signed-off-by: Wolfram Strepp <wstrepp@xxxxxx>
>   Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>   [Linux commit 16c047add3ceaf0ab882e3e094d1ec904d02312d]
> 
>   Ported to Xen.
> 
>   Signed-off-by: Praveen Kumar <kpraveen.lkml@xxxxxxxxx>
>   ---
> 
> > 
> > The way I prepare series like this for email is to use `git format-
> > patch
> > staging --cover-letter` to render the entire series as patch files
> > in
> > the local directory,  edit each patch to put suitable Cc: lines
> > beside
> > the From: header, then `git send-email --dry-run *.patch
> > --suppress-cc=all` to check what it will actually send.  The Cc's
> > in
> > the
> > header section are included, but no automatic Cc's are generated
> > from
> > content in the body.
> > 
> Cool to know, thanks.
> 
Sure, I too was bit confused by replacing Signed-off-by. As suggested
by Andrew, I will rework on the patches. Thanks again.

Regards,

~Praveen.

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