From: Amjad Ouled-Ameur <aouledameur@baylibre.com>
To: tools@linux.kernel.org
Subject: b4 cover-letter in single patch submission
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2022 14:23:18 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3b1af982-83f1-d5ed-6df1-c654df481899@baylibre.com> (raw)
Hi,
I would like to open a discussion regarding b4 tool. I read in the b4
doc that it will always
include a cover-letter even when sending a single patch [0]. This is
regarded as a proactive
feature in case the submitter is later asked to split up the single the
patch to many patches.
However, this can upset maintainers and reviewers when a single patch
(that does not need
to be split up) is sent with a cover letter that would probably contain
the same title and text
as the single patch.
My humble opinion is, adding a cover letter to a single patch should be
an optional feature.
In this case, it might even be convenient to keep the change-id and
changelog in the patch's
comment section.
[0]:
https://b4.docs.kernel.org/en/latest/contributor/prep.html#what-if-i-only-have-a-single-patch
Regards,
Amjad
next reply other threads:[~2022-09-21 12:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-09-21 12:23 Amjad Ouled-Ameur [this message]
2022-09-22 18:01 ` b4 cover-letter in single patch submission Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-09-27 9:34 ` Amjad Ouled-Ameur
2022-10-04 10:08 ` Amjad Ouled-Ameur
2022-10-07 18:08 ` Konstantin Ryabitsev
2022-10-10 7:05 ` Mattijs Korpershoek
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