[dpdk-dev] [[RFC PATCH]] lib/ether: fix 16-bit unaligned access

[Thomas Monjalon]

2015-12-08 21:55, Jan Viktorin:
> On Tue, 08 Dec 2015 21:30:03 +0100
> Thomas Monjalon <thomas.monjalon at 6wind.com> wrote:
> 
> > 2015-12-08 20:29, Jan Viktorin:
> > > (I considered to not add the cover-letter as this is just a single small patch.
> > > I hope it does not matter a lot. Is there any convention how to do this?)  
> > 
> > The main interest of splitting patches or adding a cover letter it to have
> > a place to explain the changes. When you have several changes, they deserve
> > several patches to provide an accurate explanation. In such case, you may
> > need a cover letter to describe the global idea of the series. A cover letter
> > is also helpful for mail threading and acking all the series.
> > When you have only one change, one email is enough.
> 
> That's good. Should there be a way how to separate the "inline-cover"
> and the commit?

Do you mean how add a comment which won't be in the git tree?
You can put whatever between the 3 dashes and the diff.