Re: [Qemu-devel] patchew header docs [was: Re: [PATCH 0/6] hyperv: refactor HvSintRoute management]

[Fam Zheng]

On Tue, 07/03 07:48, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 07/03/2018 03:00 AM, Fam Zheng wrote:
> > On Tue, 07/03 10:47, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > On Mon, Jul 02, 2018 at 03:55:33PM -0500, Eric Blake wrote:
> > > > On 07/02/2018 11:58 AM, Roman Kagan wrote:
> > > > > This series modifies the management of HvSintRoute, which is an
> > > > > important building block in Hyper-V emulation infrastructure, to make 
> > > > > it
> > > > > easier to maintain and enhance, and paves the way to the more complete
> > > > > Synthetic Interrupt Controller (SynIC) emulation.
> > > > > 
> > > > > This series applies on top of "[PATCH 0/2] hyperv: ensure VP index 
> > > > > equal
> > > > > to QEMU cpu_index" series (message-id:
> > > > > <address@hidden>).
> > > > 
> > > > Rewriting that in a form that patchew can parse:
> > > > 
> > > > Based-on: address@hidden
> > > 
> > > Thanks!
> > > 
> > > Are patchew-recognized headers documented anywhere?
> > 
> > No dedicated documentation so far becasue the only recognized syntax is this
> > "^Based-on: $MESSAGE_ID$" line, which is mentioned in
> 
> I seem to recall that "^Based-on: $URL$" also works, when $URL points to a
> message within https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/ (at least,
> I've used it in a few cases, rather than further looking up the translation
> from $URL to $MESSAGE_ID myself).
> 
> > 
> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch
> > 
> > There are requests to support more, such as the git base tree information:
> > 
> > https://github.com/patchew-project/patchew/issues/79
> 
> And if my recollection was wrong, adding $URL support would be one of those
> requests, and perhaps ought to be given an issue so we don't forget it.

I've created one now:

https://github.com/patchew-project/patchew/issues/84

Thanks,
Fam