Re: [PATCH v3 0/8] selftests/mm fixes for arm64

[Andrew Morton]

On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 19:49:13 +0100 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 24/07/2023 17:38, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > On Mon, 24 Jul 2023 09:25:14 +0100 Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> >> This is v3 of my series to clean up mm selftests so that they run correctly on
> >> arm64. See [1] for full explanation.
> > 
> > Please don't do that.  Please maintain the [0/n] description alongside the
> > patchset and resend it each time you resend the series.
> 
> OK understood. Sorry about that. Do you have any docs for the mm submission
> process? If not, please keep pointing issues out and I'll get it right eventually.

A work in progress ;)

> I previously thought that the cover letter was primarily for the email
> recipients and the description on each patch was the part that went into git?
> Clearly I'm wrong, but can't see anything in submitting-patches.rst so guess the
> mm process is a bit different?

I expect all subsystem maintainers would like the [0/N] intro to be
maintained and resent as the patchset evolves.

> > 
> > I could go over and copy-paste [1] into this patchset, but I don't know if it
> > is fully up to date.   I'll leave the patchset intro blank for now - please
> > review/edit [1] and send the result in reply to this email, thanks. 
> 
> I doubt you would want the whole cover letter in git, so here is the relavent intro:

Pasted, thanks.