Re: [PATCH] drm/format_helper: fix a kernel-doc typo

[Simon Ser]

On Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 19:58, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 4/5/22 08:05, Simon Ser wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday, April 5th, 2022 at 16:39, Randy Dunlap rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> >
> > > On 4/4/22 23:26, Javier Martinez Canillas wrote:
> > >
> > > > On 4/5/22 08:12, Simon Ser wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > On Monday, April 4th, 2022 at 23:35, Randy Dunlap rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > On 4/4/22 09:04, Simon Ser wrote:
> > > > > >
> > > > > > > Both doc patches pushed, thanks. I had to manually edit them because they
> > > > > > > wouldn't apply cleanly. Next time, please use git-send-email (see
> > > > > > > https://git-send-email.io/ for setup instructions).
> > > > > >
> > > > > > That's odd. I did use 'git send-email' and I don't usually have any
> > > > > > problems (AFAIK). I'll check those setup instructions.
> > > > >
> > > > > Hm, maybe the issue isn't git-send-email, but the way the patch was
> > > > > generated? I had to manually edit these lines for the first patch to work:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- linux-next-20211217.orig/include/drm/drm_file.h
> > > > > +++ linux-next-20211217/include/drm/drm_file.h
> > > > >
> > > > > I changed these to:
> > > > >
> > > > > --- a/include/drm/drm_file.h
> > > > > +++ b/include/drm/drm_file.h
>
>
> quilt (which I am using) can generate a/ b/ patches instead of linux.orig/ and
> linux/ patches.
>
> > > > > This wasn't enough for the second patch, I had to re-do the changes by hand
> > > > > from scratch.
>
>
> I would like more information about this one if it's not too much trouble
> for you.

IIRC it was the usual git-am error "fatal: sha1 information is lacking
or useless". Maybe you wrote the patch for an old tree and drm-misc-next
contained changes near the lines you changed? Maybe providing base-commit
information in the patch would've helped? I'm not sure.