Re: [PATCH 0/8] staging: sm750fb: change function naming style

On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 3:16 PM Samuel Abraham
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 3:07 PM Richard Akintola
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 5, 2025 at 2:37 PM Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > - This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
> > >   did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.
> >
> > Please, how do I resolve this issue?
> >
> > Richard Akintola
>
> Hello Richard
>
> THis is the main message from the bot
>
> This looks like a new version of a previously submitted patch, but you
>   did not list below the --- line any changes from the previous version.
>   Please read the section entitled "The canonical patch format" in the
>   kernel file, Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst for what
>   needs to be done here to properly describe this.
>
> It basically means that if you made a change to a patch, you will have
> a new version.
> You will have to indicate the patch version and also what changed
>
> So lets say you have a first Patch then after review, or you edited
> the commit message
> or made a change in the code or something,
> you will now have a new patch which you will call v2.
>
> you will use git format-patch -o /tmp/ --subject-prefix="PATCH v2" <commit-ID>
>
> then when you want to send with mutt, immediately after the signed-off
> by line there are three dashes (---),
> You will then write what changes under these three dashes in the format
>
> signedoff-by: Richard
> ---
> Changes in v1:
>    - This is what changed in v1.
>
> I hope this helps
>
Also, you can go to the "Submitting a Patchset" section down the page
of the firstPatch
documentation for more information on versioning patchsets.

Adekunle