[dpdk-dev] Process question: reviewing older patches

[Neil Horman]

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:52:48AM -0600, Jay Rolette wrote:
> There's a fairly old KNI patch (http://dpdk.org/dev/patchwork/patch/84/)
> that I reviewed, but I'm not seeing how to submit my "Reviewed-by" when I
> don't have any of the emails from the patch in my mail client.
> 
> I can copy the text from the 'mbox' link in Patchwork into an email, but
> I'm guessing that may not make the patch toolchain happy.
> 
> What's the right way to do this?
> 
Just grab the message id from the patchwork site, and list it in the envelope
headers in-reply-to: field when you respond.  You won't have the rest of the
conversation field in the thread, but you will respond properly to the thread,
and patchwork will pick up the ACK
Neil

> Thanks,
> Jay
>