On Thu, 21 May 2026, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> On Thu, May 21, 2026 at 12:03:24PM +0100, Lee Jones wrote:
> > On Wed, 20 May 2026, Andrew Lunn wrote:
> >
> > > On Wed, May 20, 2026 at 04:03:34PM -0400, mike.marciniszyn@gmail.com wrote:
> > > > From: "Mike Marciniszyn (Meta)" <mike.marciniszyn@gmail.com>
> > >
> > > The Subject: of this email has an off 'dd' in it.
> > >
> > > > The second patch stors the max speed from the firmware dialog
> > >
> > > stores
> >
> > It's also just a cover-letter.
>
> It depends on the Maintainers workflow, but for netdev, a patch series
> is imported into a branch, and the cover letter is used for the text
> of the merge commit into net-next.
>
> A well written cover letter contains the big picture, what does this
> set of patches do, so it has useful information in it, so we want to
> have it in the git history.
Interesting. This is new to me. As you were.
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Lee Jones