Niklas Cassel <cassel@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > 1) Your patches are missing a Signed-off-by tag. > Without this, we can't accept your changes, see: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#sign-your-work-the-developer-s-certificate-of-origin Yea, they aren't ready to merge yet, so I didn't add the tag. I suppose I could have put RFC in the subject. > 4) Please use git format-patch and git send-email. I did. > Looking at > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-ide/ > as well as my local inbox, > the threading seems very wrong. > > There is a [PATCH 0/1], and then a patch "[PATCH 0/1 v2]" > that replies to the [PATCH 0/1]. Yes; I sent the second version as a reply to the first. Isn't that the usual way of doing it? So that you can see the whole thread going back through the older versions? > Additionally, there is also a [PATCH 1/4] that also replies > to the [PATCH 0/1]. That's a few replies down from [PATCH 0/1]. There was some discussion first, then I sent that patch series as a reply to that discussion. > It is just impossible to follow. The flow makes perfect sense to me. > For more info, see: > https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-patches.html#explicit-in-reply-to-headers I see. I guess I'll avoid that in the future then.