From: Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon@6wind.com>
To: Jan Viktorin <viktorin@rehivetech.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [[RFC PATCH]] lib/ether: fix 16-bit unaligned access
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:30:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <12400151.dpjLSRpzoz@xps13> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1449602993-6047-1-git-send-email-viktorin@rehivetech.com>
2015-12-08 20:29, Jan Viktorin:
> (I considered to not add the cover-letter as this is just a single small patch.
> I hope it does not matter a lot. Is there any convention how to do this?)
The main interest of splitting patches or adding a cover letter it to have
a place to explain the changes. When you have several changes, they deserve
several patches to provide an accurate explanation. In such case, you may
need a cover letter to describe the global idea of the series. A cover letter
is also helpful for mail threading and acking all the series.
When you have only one change, one email is enough.
John, should we add this explanation in the contributing guide?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-08 20:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-08 19:29 Jan Viktorin
2015-12-08 20:02 ` Stephen Hemminger
2015-12-08 20:53 ` Jan Viktorin
2015-12-08 20:30 ` Thomas Monjalon [this message]
2015-12-08 20:55 ` Jan Viktorin
2015-12-08 20:57 ` Thomas Monjalon
2015-12-08 21:17 ` Jan Viktorin
2015-12-09 15:16 ` [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] arm: set CONFIG_RTE_ARCH_STRICT_ALIGN=y for armv7 target Jan Viktorin
2016-02-29 15:14 ` Thomas Monjalon
2016-02-29 15:55 ` Jan Viktorin
2016-02-29 17:13 ` Jan Viktorin
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