On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 05:17:23PM +0100, Daniel Golle wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2017 at 04:59:59PM +0100, Johannes Berg wrote: > > > > > The advantage of pull requests is that author information can be > > > preserved more easily. Running git format-patch results in most > > > patches > > > having wrong SMTP sender information due to the assumption that the > > > patch author is the same person also submitting the patch. > > > So in practise, this would either require changing the From: (and > > > thus > > > Author) to myself or having most mails eaten by anti-spam measures > > > due > > > to non-matching SPF which prohibits my SMTP to send mail on behalf of > > > the original authors of the patches. > > > > > > > This is completely untrue. If the first line of the *body* of the email > > is "From: ..." then this is preserved as the author information by git > > am, and doing so is also the default in git format-patch/send-email > > when the author doesn't match the email configuration. > > Thanks for the clarification, I'll then submit the patches via > git format-patch.
I posted all patches on the mailing list and bundled them up on patchwork. https://patchwork.kernel.org/bundle/dangole/rt2x00-from-openwrt/ Cheers Daniel
