On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:18:16PM +0200, andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 07:37:17PM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote: > > > On 21 Feb 2025, at 8:59 PM, andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 11:37:13AM +0000, Aditya Garg wrote: > > > > First of all, I do not see the cover letter. Is it only an issue on my side? > > > > These are literally 3 patches that are self explanatory. > > So what? Anybody will be puzzled with the simple question (and probably not the > only one): Why are these in the series? Do they dependent or independent? What's > the goal and how they should be routed? (You see, there are already 4). > > > Is this a hard and fast rule that a cover letter MUST be there? > > Cover letter SHOULD be there if there are more than one patch. > Yes, there are exceptions, but this is the idea for the series. FWIW, two more points: 1) yes, it's a MUST for some subsystems (BPF has this even documented); 2) there are tools (`b4`) that rely on the cover letter (shazam feature or multiplying trailers if it/they was/were given against the cover letter). > Use your common sense, if there is no documented thingy. -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko
