Re: [Qemu-devel] [Qemu-ppc] Forward-porting RTC device for eppc500 ?

[Andrew Randrianasulu]

В сообщении от Sunday 03 March 2019 03:17:47 BALATON Zoltan написал(а):
> On Sun, 3 Mar 2019, Andrew Randrianasulu wrote:
> > git commit -a --author="Amit Singh Tomar <address@hidden>"
> > git format-patch -s 20b084c4b1401b7f8fbc385649d48c67b6f43d44
> >
> > scripts/checkpatch.pl
> > 0001-Re-applying-Freescale-PPC-E500-i2c-RTC-patch.patch
> >
> > After this I created new message in Kmail and inserted 0001 file, edited
> > it a bit more (adding patchwork link and mentioning fact I actually
> > boot-tested patch), and then send out.
>
> When sending patches to list make sure your mailer sends them as plain
> text and does not try to break up lines or alter white space because that
> breaks the patch and it won't apply with git am. You can check it in
> patchew (linked from SubmitAPatch wiki page):
>
> https://patchew.org/QEMU/address@hidden/
>
> Not sure if Kmail can do this, maybe it has some settings for this but
> it's usually better to do all editing on the git commit and send patch
> mails with git send-email.

I see, it failed to apply. Will try to convince git send-mail to work (last 
time 
it failed for me, but it was long time ago)

>
> > Guess next time I better to add second "-s" to git format-patch, so first
> > signed-off-by-line from original will be around too?
> >
> > Or ..lets wait what actual maintainers will say.
>
> Yes, I'll let actual maintainers to comment then you can do a corrected
> version with any requested fixes or Reviewed-by tags added. I think for
> next revision you should leave original author's Signed-off-by in commit
> message and add yours with -s after that. (When sending another version of
> a patch use -v2 option of git format-patch to add v2 to the patch
> subject and so on for higher revisions if needed.)

Thanks.


>
> Regards,
> BALATON Zoltan