{"thread":{"id":"64257","subject":"Failing application of patches despite of successful data export by git format-patch command","startedAt":"2025-10-06T18:21:44Z","lastAt":"2025-10-06T18:21:44Z","messageCount":1,"participants":["Markus Elfring"],"isPatch":false,"patchVersion":null,"patchTotal":null},"messages":[{"id":"528012","messageId":"9daf163d-d2e8-48b4-8c3c-b718d39c68c9@web.de","threadId":"64257","inReplyTo":null,"subject":"Failing application of patches despite of successful data export by git format-patch command","fromName":"Markus Elfring","fromEmail":"markus.elfring@web.de","sentAt":"2025-10-06T18:21:35Z","receivedAt":"2025-10-06T18:21:44Z","isPatch":false,"sender":{"key":"markus.elfring@web.de","avatar":null},"body":"Hello,\n\nI published development ideas like the following.\n\n* smb: client: Use common code in cifs_lookup()\n  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/7811a101-2d81-4f4b-8e33-db3154c6137a@web.de/\n  https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/10/5/170\n\n* smb: client: Reduce the scopes for a few variables in two functions\n  https://lore.kernel.org/linux-cifs/468cf96a-5dd9-4aa5-a8ce-930cf16952b3@web.de/\n  https://lkml.org/lkml/2025/10/5/183\n\n\nSteve French informed me that these patches would be corrupted and won't merge.\n\nThey were generated based on single commits for a source file of the software\n“Linux next-20251003” by the subcommand “format-patch” of the tool “git 2.51.0-2.1”\non my Linux system.\nThus I wonder also about the following questionable information at the moment.\n\nMarkus_Elfring@Sonne:…/Projekte/Linux/next2-patched> git checkout next_adjustments-20251003\n…\nMarkus_Elfring@Sonne:…/Projekte/Linux/next2-patched> LANG=C git apply '…/Projekte/Bau/Linux/scripts/Coccinelle/tuning1/next/20251003/Flicken/0001-smb-client-Use-common-code-in-cifs_lookup.patch'\nerror: patch failed: fs/smb/client/dir.c:679\nerror: fs/smb/client/dir.c: patch does not apply\nMarkus_Elfring@Sonne:…/Projekte/Linux/next2-patched> LANG=C git apply '…/Projekte/Bau/Linux/scripts/Coccinelle/tuning1/next/20251003/Flicken/0001-smb-client-Reduce-the-scopes-for-a-few-variables.patch'\nerror: patch failed: fs/smb/client/dir.c:678\nerror: fs/smb/client/dir.c: patch does not apply\n\n\nHow do you think about to clarify and improve any aspects of such data processing?\n\nRegards,\nMarkus\n"}]}