Re: [PATCH 2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Add DT for sc7280-herobrine-zombie

From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Wed Nov 23 2022 - 10:16:43 EST


On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 03:58:06PM +0100, Krzysztof Kozlowski wrote:
> On 23/11/2022 15:39, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> > On Wed, Nov 23, 2022 at 06:11:13PM +0800, Owen Yang wrote:
> >
> >> Subject: [2/2] arm64: dts: qcom: sc7280: Add DT for sc7280-herobrine-zombie
> >
> > Please in include a version number for versions >1. If my accounting is correct
> > this is v3, so the next iteration should be v4.
> >
> > You mentioned earlier that you are using patman. Add the following tag to
> > one of the patches in the series to get the version included in the subject:
> >
> > Series-version: 4
>
> It is a bit surprise that this patch is a v4... because I do not
> remember v1 and v2... and v3. And no wonder since I was not CC-ed :/
>
> It still surprised me how many people just cannot use
> scripts/get_maintainers.pl. Everywhere, in each company. There is a tool
> which they claim to use but they don't... or they base their patches on
> one year old kernel which is another surprise...

I suspect in this case the patches were based on a downstream tree. Owen is
probably newer to upstream kernel development, let's celebrate that more
people/companies get involved and guide them towards the upstream way of
doing things, which might not always be obvious to folks who are newer to
this :)