Re: [RESEND PATCH 0/4] staging: rtl8192e: code cleanup patches

[Khadija Kamran]

On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 06:32:54PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 08:23:17PM +0500, Khadija Kamran wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 04:34:43PM +0300, Dan Carpenter wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 23, 2023 at 02:08:58PM +0100, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2023, Julia Lawall wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > On Thu, 23 Mar 2023, Khadija Kamran wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > Fix several cleanup issues reported by checkpatch.pl in module
> > > > > > staging/rtl8192e in file rtllib_rx.c
> > > > >
> > > > > Why is it resent?
> > > > 
> > > > OK, I see, sorry for the noise.
> > > 
> > > I'm still confused...  :P
> > >
> > 
> > Hey Dan!
> > 
> > Sorry about the confusion. I sent the last patch with the wrong email
> > mistakenly. It was causing following warning as reported by Philipp,
> > Checkpatch:
> > 
> > WARNING: From:/Signed-off-by: email address mismatch: 'From: Khadija
> > Kamran <kkamran.bese16seecs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>' != 'Signed-off-by: Khadija
> > Kamran <kamrankhadijadj@xxxxxxxxx>
> > 
> > I resent this patch with the correct email address. I hope I did not do
> > this wrong.
> 
> It needs to be v2: resend from the correct email address.
> 
> When you send a patch a second time that always needs to be explained
> because we don't remember all the email we get.  The v2 information is
> really interesting as a reviewer.  Maybe I am wondering, "Did I respond
> to the original email and is my complaint fixed?"
> 
> For RESEND patches it means that the first patch was perfect but
> something broke down in the process.  Maybe a maintainer was on vacation
> and accidentally ignored the patch.  If Greg asks you to resend
> everything that's a kind of breakdown in the process as well, but just
> add that information in the patch "Resending all the most/ patches
> because it was confusing which one were supposed to be applied".
> 
> That information is super interesting because it shows we are all on the
> same page about how to go forward.
>

Hey Dan,

Thank you for the explanation. I understand and I will make sure to
always add some information regarding the patch if resent.

Regards,
Khadija

> regards,
> dan carpenter