[PATCH] drm/format_helper: fix a kernel-doc typo
Javier Martinez Canillas
javierm at redhat.com
Tue Apr 5 06:26:09 UTC 2022
On 4/5/22 08:12, Simon Ser wrote:
> On Monday, April 4th, 2022 at 23:35, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap at infradead.org> 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.
--
Best regards,
Javier Martinez Canillas
Linux Engineering
Red Hat
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