RE: [PATCH v2 net-next] net: stmmac: Add support for MDIO interrupts

From: Voon, Weifeng
Date: Thu Sep 05 2019 - 07:58:34 EST


> > The change log is near the end of the patch:
> > /**
> > --
> > Changelog v2
> > *mdio interrupt mode or polling mode will depends on mdio interrupt
> > enable bit *Disable the mdio interrupt enable bit in stmmac_release
> > *Remove the condition for initialize wait queues *Applied reverse
> > Christmas tree
> > 1.9.1
>
> At the end, nobody sees it, because everybody else does it at the
> beginning.
>
> https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/submitting-
> patches.html?highlight=submitting#the-canonical-patch-format
>
> This talks about the ---. David prefers to see the change log before the
> ---. Other maintainers want it after the ---.
>
> >
> > >
> > > The formatting of this patch also looks a bit odd. Did you use git
> > > format-patch ; git send-email?
> >
> > Yes, I do git format-patch, then ./scripts/checkpatch.pl.
> > Lastly git send-email
>
> What looked odd is the missing --- marker. git format-patch should of
> create that as part of the patch.
>
> Andrew

I found out why as I did a git format-patch with -p which is without the
Stat. I will resent v3 to using correct format.

Weifeng