> v2: drop the redundant cover letter shipped with v1. A > single-patch send should not carry a cover; the lead > belongs in the commit message, which the patch below > already has. The v1 cover also carried stale drafting- > time envelope markers that should have been stripped > before send. Apologies for the noise; please ignore the > v1 cover at > > https://lore.kernel.org/linux-hardening/[email protected]/ > The patch hunks below are byte-identical to v1's 0001.
Cover letters for single patches are not required, but totally fine if they add value. I don't think you needed one here, but it also wasn't actually harmful.

