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SubjectRe: [PATCH 00/23] PCI, x86: pci root bus hotplug support
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On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> wrote:
>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 4:43 PM, Bjorn Helgaas <bhelgaas@google.com> wrote:
>
>>> The notes about "-v2, -v3, -v4, etc." are not really useful in the
>>> commit changelogs.  They're helpful in the [00/] message, but not in
>>> the changelogs.
>>
>> But Jesse may still need mark to figure out which one is latest?
>
> The way I do that is with "stg mail -v v3", which puts "[PATCH v3
> 01/10]" in the subject.  IMO, that's much more useful because when you
> post a 23-patch series, I don't want to be bothered with v1, v2, v3 on
> a per-patch basis.

For that, I could just sed to replace PATCH to PATCH v3

>
> It's true that when you post v2, many of those 23 patches will be
> unchanged from v1, and you do have to describe that in the [v2 00/23]
> mail.  But at least it's easy to identify the entire set of v2
> patches.

Version number of the entire set could be different from individual patch.
That could be more confusing.

Yinghai
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