On Tue, Oct 06, 2020 at 06:21:14PM -0700, Mike Travis wrote: > When the UV BIOS starts the kernel it passes the UVsystab info struct to the > kernel Oh wow, *now* I get it. There is no "patch" being passed - your initial commit message simply states that this is a patch to add and process... Yeah, as already mentioned, saying that this is a patch in the same patch's commit message is tautological and, as we just saw, really confusing. So pls refrain from doing that. I'll use this explanation in the commit message as it is more clear. Thx. -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. https://people.kernel.org/tglx/notes-about-netiquette