Andrew, Jeff: would you update tpp.txt and patch-format.html
respectively to clarify this? (I can send patches if you prefer that.)
From: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
It seems that we need to clarify that a patch series is a
series of related patches rather than "here are some of my
patches as multiple (numbered) emails."
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>
---
Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 ++-
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- linux-2.6.21-git10.orig/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ linux-2.6.21-git10/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -363,7 +363,8 @@ area or subsystem of the kernel is being
The "summary phrase" in the email's Subject should concisely
describe the patch which that email contains. The "summary
phrase" should not be a filename. Do not use the same "summary
-phrase" for every patch in a whole patch series.
+phrase" for every patch in a whole patch series (where a "patch
+series" is an ordered sequence of multiple, related patches).
Bear in mind that the "summary phrase" of your email becomes
a globally-unique identifier for that patch. It propagates
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