Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH 1/1] mbuf: add extern "C" to rte_mbuf_dyn.h

[Ashish Sadanandan <ashish.sadanandan@gmail.com>]

Hi David,

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 1:02 AM David Marchand <david.marchand@redhat.com>
wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 2:42 AM Ashish Sadanandan
> <ashish.sadanandan@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Olivier,
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 6, 2021 at 6:21 AM Olivier Matz <olivier.matz@6wind.com>
> 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: stable@dpdk.org" 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 state to Superseded at the same time.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: 20201229194144.17824-1-ashish.sadanandan@gmail.com
>
> So for the v2:
> git send-email --to dev@dpdk.org --cc-cmd ./devtools/get-maintainer.sh
> --cc XXX --in-reply-to
> '20201229194144.17824-1-ashish.sadanandan@gmail.com' 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
>
>