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diff --git a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst index 86d346bcb8ef..66029999b587 100644 --- a/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst +++ b/Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst @@ -790,10 +790,14 @@ Providing base tree information ------------------------------- When other developers receive your patches and start the review process, -it is often useful for them to know where in the tree history they -should place your work. This is particularly useful for automated CI -processes that attempt to run a series of tests in order to establish -the quality of your submission before the maintainer starts the review. +it is absolutely necessary for them to know what is the base +commit/branch your work applies on, considering the sheer amount of +maintainer trees present nowadays. Note again the **T:** entry in the +MAINTAINERS file explained above. + +This is even more important for automated CI processes that attempt to +run a series of tests in order to establish the quality of your +submission before the maintainer starts the review. If you are using ``git format-patch`` to generate your patches, you can automatically include the base tree information in your submission by @@ -836,6 +840,9 @@ letter or in the first patch of the series and it should be placed either below the ``---`` line or at the very bottom of all other content, right before your email signature. +Make sure that base commit is in an official maintainer/mainline tree +and not in some internal, accessible only to you tree - otherwise it +would be worthless. References ---------- |