Re: [PATCH tip/core/rcu 0/3] v2 Documentation updates for 3.12

From: Paul E. McKenney
Date: Tue Aug 20 2013 - 00:29:00 EST


On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 08:24:11PM -0700, Josh Triplett wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 07:37:17PM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > This series provides a few documentation updates:
> >
> > 1. Update rcu_barrier() documentation to note that it no longer is
> > guaranteed to wait for a full grace period. This guarantee was
> > a victim of energy efficiency.
> >
> > 2. Update RTFP documentation.
> >
> > 3. Fix a control-dependency example in the memory-barriers
> > documentation.
> >
> > Changes from v1 (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/8/17/94):
> >
> > o Apply Josh Triplett review comments.
>
> Consider changing the patch tag for new versions, to "PATCH v2" or
> similar; that way, all of the patches have a clearly distinct subject
> for the new version.
>
> git format-patch will do this for you; just pass "-v 2".

Good point, my email client got them confused as well. My version of git
format-patch does not know about "-v 2", but --subject-prefix="PATCH v2"
does fine. I am using git version 1.8.1.5, for whatever it is worth.

Thanx, Paul

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