[dpdk-stable] [PATCH 3/3] README: add hint on chaining multiple series submissions
Christian Ehrhardt
christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com
Thu Feb 4 13:09:03 CET 2021
Signed-off-by: Christian Ehrhardt <christian.ehrhardt at canonical.com>
---
README | 9 ++++++++-
1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/README b/README
index 771b97e..6489379 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ changes. To aid this, a personal repo like github can be used to store the queue
patches and it can be referenced in the email. If it is available it is set it
in lib.sh with QUEUED_REPO.
-Note:
+Note - flood protection:
Once generally configured git send-email can submit those via:
$ git send-email $release/$date/mail/*.patch
But some email providers will apply limits and a DPDK LTS maintainers often send
@@ -98,6 +98,13 @@ adding the following to your gitconfig:
smtpBatchSize = 5
smtpReloginDelay = 10
+Note - chain patch series submissions:
+Often one is working on the commits collected from lastrelease->rc1, to later
+work again on e.g. rc1->rc2. To thread/chain these submissions right
+git send-email will ask for:
+ Message-ID to be used as In-Reply-To for the first email (if any)?
+Here enter the Message-ID of the last patch of your formerly submitted series.
+
3-request-backport
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