On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 10:19:09AM +0200, Luca Weiss wrote: > On Mon Jun 26, 2023 at 9:41 AM CEST, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote: > > On 26/06/2023 08:38, Luca Weiss wrote: > > >>>> but I guess no resends and it can be superseded. > > >>> > > >>> Right, the patches got reviews but was never applied... I really need to > > >>> find a strategy to keep track of sent patches until they're applied with > > >>> my work mailbox, it's not the first time that a patch has gotten > > >>> forgotten. > > >> > > >> There was an error reported on the above series. Why would it be > > >> applied? > > > > > > The error report at [0] complains about reg-names but I'm quite sure > > > that patch 2/3 resolves this error. Does your bot only apply one patch > > > at a time and run the check or apply all of them and then run it? It's > > > been a while but I'm fairly sure I ran all of the checks before sending > > > since I also documented some other patches in the cover letter there. > > > > You did it in cover letter, not in the patch, so there is no dependency > > for bots recorded. > > I'm not aware how to put extra comments into a patch in a series with > b4, at least last time I checked I don't think it was possible? But I > also thought the cover letter was exactly there for giving some > background of the series and documenting any dependencies on other > patches. I just put a '---' line and comments after that in the commit messages. That works fine unless your git branch is going upstream directly (i.e. via a pull request). Even when I apply my own patches, I get them from lore and apply so the comments are dropped. Rob
