Hi David, On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:02 AM David Marchand <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:42 AM Ashish Sadanandan > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi Olivier, > > > > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:21 AM Olivier Matz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > > > > Hi Ashish, > > > > > > Yes, it should reference the patch that introduced the issue. In this > case, > > > it should be: > > > > > > Fixes: 4958ca3a443a ("mbuf: support dynamic fields and flags") > > > > > > Can you please also change the title to start with "fix", for > > > instance like this: > > > > > > mbuf: fix inclusion from c++ > > > > > > You can also add "Cc: [email protected]" in the commit log. > > > > > > Some documentation can be found in doc/guides/contributing/patches.rst > > > > Thanks for the pointers. I've made the changes above. However I don't > > know if I'm using the message ID for --in-reply-to correctly, since I > > seem to be creating a new thread each time. > > You can get the message ID in various places. > I usually take the info from patchwork and update the previous patch > state to Superseded at the same time. > > So in your case, the v1 patch was: > http://patchwork.dpdk.org/patch/85878/ > > Message ID: [email protected] > > So for the v2: > git send-email --to [email protected] --cc-cmd ./devtools/get-maintainer.sh > --cc XXX --in-reply-to > '[email protected]' v2-*.patch > > This is almost the exact command I ran (except for the --cc-cmd arg since I don't have the Linux source tree cloned). Just tried it once more, but I think it created a new thread again! I don't get what I'm doing wrong and am terribly sorry for the spam I've been generating. - Ashish > > -- > David Marchand > >

